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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. " Is that a bad thing do you think? | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Was about to say something similar x | |||
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"It is all over the media, did you also read about it? It is a rather complex one to understand but apparently last week was the arrival in the uk of the first three parent baby. The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases, it is incurable and can be fatal. Where most of the dna comes from their 2 parents and 0.1% from a third doner woman. Experts also said that it is not without risk, they are especially concerned with moving the genetic material from one egg to another could affect the way in which the genes are expressed. What do you think of it, is it a good idea? I think that it is good that they have found a way to potentially prevent it " .. It's a slippery slope! | |||
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"It's a step forward in one way, but not without its risks as with any genetic procedure, new conditions may occur from the gene coding in different ways, trouble is, this is with human life, so is always going to be an emotive subject" Yes, you are right there as well, it is a step forward, but not without its risk as it is a new procedure | |||
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"It is all over the media, did you also read about it? It is a rather complex one to understand but apparently last week was the arrival in the uk of the first three parent baby. The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases, it is incurable and can be fatal. Where most of the dna comes from their 2 parents and 0.1% from a third doner woman. Experts also said that it is not without risk, they are especially concerned with moving the genetic material from one egg to another could affect the way in which the genes are expressed. What do you think of it, is it a good idea? I think that it is good that they have found a way to potentially prevent it " This is how we get X-Men. And so it begins…… Or it’s a good thing for humanity and eradication of a nasty disease. One of the two. | |||
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"I do know if mitochondrial disease was likely to affect any of my children I'd jump at the chance of this." This. It may sound like the beginning of the end to some, but to others it gives hope of a new beginning. | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Is this different to any medical intervention though?Where do you sit with vaccines? Treatment for illnesses. Keeping people alive by removing tumors, medication like statins to help prevent heart attacks etc....are these not nature's population control that we have no business interfering in? | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. " Which is the real & will be the main objective throughout … | |||
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"Not sure on my stance here, most of the kids in my town have 4 or 5 dads. Well one current serving dad and lots of uncles " | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Isn't this nature and evolution in action though in that we're part of nature and have evolved to have this capability? People with mitochondrial disease live horrible, desperate, brief lives as do their families. That might be population control but it's horribly cruel | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Incurable and fatal mitochondrial disease sounds broken to me | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo " Yes, anything that helps is good | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Agreed | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens. | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens." | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr " Why do they scare you? Fear often comes from a lack of knowledge, perhaps a greater understanding of what they do, how they do it, what controls are in place etc would help alleviate some of that fear? Aside from that, I'm not sure your comments on evolution are on the mark either. Like many people you appear to be anthropomorphising nature, giving it a rationality when it has none. Evolution has no plan, it isn't a system that designs perfect outcomes, just one that work long enough to breed. That aside, it has arguably been many millenia since human evolution was driven only by natural selection for survival traits. Instead our evolution has tended to be more and more social. As a species, our care for the sick has meant that for 10's of thousands of years we have had the ability to allow genetic material from individuals who would have otherwise have died before reaching breeding age to be passed on. Life saving first aid on a child who would otherwise have died falling from a tree is not exactly letting nature take it's course. Maybe try walking through some of the children's cancer wards at your local hospital and telling the parents that you see there that nature knows what it is doing may help you to see this in a new way? | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens." Nature and evolution have done a rubbish job Shag and as I said earlier us humans are a part of nature that has evolved to be able to start to try and eradicate the things that evolution hasn't. I'm not qualified to say if this is good or bad but humans will always try and work towards making things better, often with a side effect of making some things worse | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens. Nature and evolution have done a rubbish job Shag and as I said earlier us humans are a part of nature that has evolved to be able to start to try and eradicate the things that evolution hasn't. I'm not qualified to say if this is good or bad but humans will always try and work towards making things better, often with a side effect of making some things worse " I think a lot of us wouldn't be alive a lot of times over if we just let things be. Vaccine preventable disease, the high risk of childbirth (I suspect my mother would have died for two of three of her kids if not for modern medicine), other conditions incompatible with fertility, etc. | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens. Nature and evolution have done a rubbish job Shag and as I said earlier us humans are a part of nature that has evolved to be able to start to try and eradicate the things that evolution hasn't. I'm not qualified to say if this is good or bad but humans will always try and work towards making things better, often with a side effect of making some things worse I think a lot of us wouldn't be alive a lot of times over if we just let things be. Vaccine preventable disease, the high risk of childbirth (I suspect my mother would have died for two of three of her kids if not for modern medicine), other conditions incompatible with fertility, etc. " I'm currently reading a book about the lives of medieval women. All I can say is thank god for human intervention | |||
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"Geneticists scare me. Nature and evolution have done a fine job so far. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. Yeah sure there’s loads of things that will kill you. That’s just nature’s way of population control. The mr Yes, nature and evolution have done a good job so far too and that is the thing as well, one dont know what could happen when mixing in a 3rd dna, like what could happen if it goes wrong or if nothing happens. Nature and evolution have done a rubbish job Shag and as I said earlier us humans are a part of nature that has evolved to be able to start to try and eradicate the things that evolution hasn't. I'm not qualified to say if this is good or bad but humans will always try and work towards making things better, often with a side effect of making some things worse I think a lot of us wouldn't be alive a lot of times over if we just let things be. Vaccine preventable disease, the high risk of childbirth (I suspect my mother would have died for two of three of her kids if not for modern medicine), other conditions incompatible with fertility, etc. I'm currently reading a book about the lives of medieval women. All I can say is thank god for human intervention" Absolutely. I can think of at least three health conditions in my family members that would have prevented my conception and birth. My birth could easily have been fatal. Antibiotics dramatically saved my life once. Surgery saved my life twice. Medicine has kept me alive (extremely cheaply and low maintenance) for over 20 years. Fuck nature | |||
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"These scientists are playing with nature ok to help a small minority but nevertheless playing with natures way " Human kind has been playing with nature since we figured out how to make fire. Literally everything that has been done since making the first tool has been unnatural. Yes there does have to be some consideration of ethics, risks vs. benefits etc. Funnily enough though, scientists do in fact do this. There are swathes of law controlling what is allowed, law which is regularly reviewed and updated in line with both advances and new concerns. Every hospital, every university, have ethics boards that oversee this stuff. If and when things do go wrong, the problems can usually be traced to the self-involvement of people and groups that have zero ethical concern or oversight - politicians, newspapers, "religious" pressure (in quotes because usually these people are actually utterly lacking in any true religious values) and snake oil salesmen in general. | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. Is that a bad thing do you think?" In some cases as it will be the financial elite having a choice and others not. | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. Is that a bad thing do you think? In some cases as it will be the financial elite having a choice and others not. " Yep | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. Which is the real & will be the main objective throughout … " Yep. | |||
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"Anything that helps eradicate bad things is good imo It’s good to prevent birth defects but soon it will be designer babies. A bit like having a cocktail. A bit of this a splash of that and a slice of something else. Is that a bad thing do you think? In some cases as it will be the financial elite having a choice and others not. " Is it much further on from (for example) a woman choosing a man to have a child with based on his looks, intelligence and fitness? Or a man choosing a woman on similar criteria? Obviously this is a health concern but really it just seems like one step up | |||
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"I was listening to something about this on Friday. We seem to develop techniques first and worry about the ethics afterwards. I don't know where it will lead. Either a dystopian future with a race of wealthy super beings being serviced by impoverished 'normal' humans, a world free of awful genetically transmitted disease or something in between. I do know if mitochondrial disease was likely to affect any of my children I'd jump at the chance of this." Yes, we seem to do that, apparently this also seems to be a new a ground breaking ivf procedure | |||
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