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Rguy315 t1_iresz2l wrote

Reply to comment by fxrky in A bold effort to cure HIV—using Crispr by Sariel007

Among proponents of gene editing there is a debate about whether or not it should be done in a way that passes the altered genes onto offspring or not. That's a bit more interesting than the "nature is good" fallacious arguments.

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supersecretpudding t1_irf1fgq wrote

I hadn't considered that.. we don't want to cause a butterfly effect where 10 generations later we suddenly can't reproduce or something mad I guess, but I'm not a scientist and have no idea so that's probably pretty unlikely

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