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Overuse of antibiotics might lead to the development of a superbug immune to any tool we have to fight it. I doubt anyone would say we should not have invented and improved antibiotics through the years.
There is a potential negative side to all these scientific progressions. I vote we still move forward.
And what are we doing to curb the overuse of antibiotics? NOTHING. This is my point. We have a really ****ty history of doing anything about the abuses of technology. Why should I believe gene editing will be any different?
I don't have a problem with any helpful medical science but toying with genetic structure does concern me. Screw with the wrong gene or enable genes that have been "turned off" due to thousands of years of evolution and you may condemn the future of the human race to the toilet. Though it may sound like science fiction you have to wonder if viral research and genetic research should cross paths, could genetic mutation be transmitted like the flu or worse?
And what are we doing to curb the overuse of antibiotics? NOTHING. This is my point. We have a really ****ty history of doing anything about the abuses of technology. Why should I believe gene editing will be any different?
Are you saying since we are not handling the use of antibiotics perfectly we should never have invented them in the first place?
Overuse of antibiotics might lead to the development of a superbug immune to any tool we have to fight it. I doubt anyone would say we should not have invented and improved antibiotics through the years.
There is a potential negative side to all these scientific progressions. I vote we still move forward.
What has happened with antibiotics is a lot of ignorence, or just not considering the results. Antibiotics were a miracle. Doctors started giving them out like candy. But now penicillin is almost worthless since its been used so much, and to treat minor things you have to take a much stronger drug. When I was a kid in the fifties, if you went to the doctor and had the snuffles, you got pills, even if maybe all you had was a cold. What should not have been done was it being used wrong, and without effort to find out if it fitted the problem.
1. I do adhere to my own beliefs. 2. I don't think everyone else should adhere to mine, I am merely expressing an opinion. I am allowed to do that... this is a forum... 3. You don't know me and have no right to tell me I don't adhere to my own beliefs, beliefs which you know nothing about.
Do I need to quote you on your beliefs to remind you of them?
Do I need to quote you on your beliefs to remind you of them?
No. You need to leave me alone because I'm just expressing my opinion. Move on. Plenty of people on this thread agree with you, converse with them and stop trying to attack me for my opinion.
No. You need to leave me alone because I'm just expressing my opinion. Move on. Plenty of people on this thread agree with you, converse with them and stop trying to attack me for my opinion.
You're on a discussion forum, not a "leave me alone while I share my contradictory views/beliefs" forum.
You're on a discussion forum, not a "leave me alone while I share my contradictory views/beliefs" forum.
Seriously, get a life. I'm not contradicting myself. I've stated clearly that I feel there is a difference between creating meds that work (often in the short-term) on one individual, and forever altering a person and family's gene pool. There is a difference between me taking Zithromax to cure my sinus infection and me having my genes altered to protect my future children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, etc, by taking something out of our genetics that could possibly hurt them. If you can't see that, that's not my problem.
And even if for whatever crazy reason you think I'm contradicting myself and being a hypocrite, why the hell do you care so much? Exactly, it's a discussion forum, so I am sharing my opinion. We don't even know each other. Who cares? Clearly my opinion is different than yours, perhaps you can't deal with that. You need to. Get over it and move on.
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