(yes, this is a real post by someone who also happened to have actually been arrested for gene editing embryos)

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    It’s illegal to gene edit embryos?

    Not in all countries. In US, it’s not illegal unless you use federal grant money.

    So Sam Altman is starting a company to do this, basically targeted eugenics for wealthy people. Of course, the technology is not 100% accurate, so there will be children born with genetic abnormalities or disease, …so keep the receipt!

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      3 months ago

      That sounds horrible. So what do they do with the kids born with issues? Are the wealthy just going to send the kid to be adopted or somehow make it legal to dispose of babies?

      • Reminds me:

        In episode 5 of this show:

        The government has this sort of what I call a “breeding program” that basically artificially creates embryos and insert them into women who’s main job in this dystopian future is to raise the kids. Exams at 15 and 18, if fail, then the embryo is considered “defective” and the government soldiers take the kids to an “advancement program”, which is secretly just forced euthanasia. Having ADHD is also considered “defective” and they get terminated.

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        3 months ago

        Better yet, they’ll have the carrying mother deported with the yet to be born baby, or simply disposed of in a recycling center