Re: [DIYbio] Which country has the most progressive human GM laws? China?

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My personal feeling on human "reproductive engineering" is that if the
fundamental goal is to create a healthy, happy human being, then
that's Ok, but if the goal is to make yourself happy by choosing or
tweaking a human being to your tastes, that's selfish and not-ok.

I have a certain amount of room in my ethical buffer-zones for
attempts to, ah, stabilise some of the traits that can cause us
trouble; so if you're aiming to create a person who is less likely to
catch and propagate a pandemic, or who has an even-more-versatile
immune system, or more efficient autophagic systems to perhaps prolong
healthy life, then maybe; with ethical oversight and only when the
technology is really beyond ready.

So while I think it's silly to ban IVF, I don't think it's silly to
ban human cloning (because I don't see any non-selfish or narcissistic
reasons to clone humans), and I don't think it's silly to put a
moratorium on human selection/engineering beyond "this one will
survive gestation, this one won't", for now.

On 03/25/2013 09:57 PM, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Cathal Garvey
> <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
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>> Best approach would be to modify your sperm instead of trying to
>> modify a fetus.
>
> whatever the method that works best, sure, but my point was that
> here in the U.S. people are trying to outlaw IVF and such, so the
> prevailing opinion is probably negative in regard to human GM
> regardless of the route.
>
>

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