Interesting ethical issues arise when talking about &quot;writing genomes&quot; and essentially creating a designer human synthetically. Now let&#x27;s say the scientific community decides against doing this based on ethical reasons. What&#x27;s to stop rogue scientists from going ahead with the research and going around the global community? Would they need the protection of a nation state to move forward? What could be done to stop them? We&#x27;re getting into cloners from Kamino territory here...