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Should we edit genes to make nicer people?

Oxford Sparks Big Questions

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Should We Edit People to Make Them Nicer?

What we don't want to have happened is a patchwork of s where each country is different, and you create this market for baby editing tourism. It's much easier to make these kind of laws at a national level, but we don't know whether it'll be effective. Every change that you make can be inherited by future generations. We're not just talking about one person. We're talking about whole lines of descent. So we can hurt for that. This notion of, should we edit people to make them more moral, to make them nicer, just throws up even more questions for researchers like tests to answer. Something like moral enhancement is definitely something i would want to be able to

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