[devwastaken]

thats the point. nobody knows how it all works, and by the time you think you do you youve killed people with it.

these attempts to play god always fall prey to the most basic sins. just because someone says they “want to do good” doesnt mean they effecticely can. humans cannot handle the power.

i dont believe in trading lives just so we can fund research grants.

[Llamamoe]

We know enough about how it works to make it safe, and everything else that we don't know, we learn through the process, to the benefit of our future as a species.

[devwastaken]

No, you dont. you cant know its safe. youre just repeating phrases from popular media.

[Llamamoe]

Oh shut up. The fact that YOU don't know anything about genetic engineering doesn't mean other people don't. My insight comes from hanging out with people who do actual genetic engineering and YouTube videos of them explaining the process in detail. That's on top of a background on how biochemistry works.

[devwastaken]

“im youtube educated so its okay that for profit corps play around with genetics they know nothing about”

burden is on you to demonstrate that we somehow have anywhere close to a good theory of how genetics work. we dont, it doesnt exist, because we dont know. your friends paychecks dont care much for science.

[Llamamoe]

Genes code for production of protein. Protein have a specific, usually very narrow function. There's a lot of cases where a gene you want to add doesn't work right because of the difference between the organism it comes from and the one you're transplanting it to, but there isn't much of a way for it to have unpredictable results.

E.g. if you add a gene coding for an enzyme that turns molecule A into molecule B, most of the time there simply isn't a way for it to do anything, and the organism will usually adjust production of molecule A to compensate, so that there's barely even the tiniest difference other than it now producing molecule B.

[drekk]

I hope for consistency's you never take an antibiotic. Never take a vaccine. Never take any pharmaceutical drug. Don't want anyone "playing god"

[devwastaken]

im sure youd keep the crows away from any field with that much straw man.

we actually dont need the vast majority of for profit pharmaceuticals. billions invested in all political parties to make sure you think theyre the savior. thats why theyve banned antibiotics from anyone but an expensive prescription, create vaccines that get banned, and sell a lot of “mental health” drugs that tranquilize society.