Geneticists Are Concerned Transhumanists Will Use CRISPR on Themselves
Uhh... I don&#x27;t believe that these concerns are valid at this point in time because the technical complexity required to actually &quot;use CRISPR on yourself&quot; (which isn&#x27;t even a coherent idea in the first place) is extremely daunting. We&#x27;re talking intermittent failure with a fully kitted lab, trained people, good protocols, and a concrete goal.  CRISPR being scientifically &quot;easy&quot; to implement relative to the other solutions on the market doesn&#x27;t mean you can just slop together some new genes and go wild. Geneticists should probably know that, but whatever.<p>The point is, you can&#x27;t just &quot;take CRISPR&quot; and &quot;chop up some cool new genes&quot; then &quot;use it on yourself&quot;. I mean, I shouldn&#x27;t have to say this at all, but only with a childlike understanding is such a sequence of events remotely conceivable. Each of those items within quotation marks entail a deeply complicated series of planning actions and laboratory manipulations within different scientific paradigms, executed without mishap.<p>Even if it WAS that simple, who cares? People unambiguously have the right to experiment on themselves and alter their bodies however they wish without unwanted external interference.