Biologists are on the verge of creating new life-forms with wholly synthetic DNA.
Can anybody in that industry think past the "oh, we can make a shitload of money doing this" aspect and consider whether or not this is a good idea in general?
They should take a look at the history of other technologies and if they did so with open eyes, they would come to realize that what looks so nifty in the laboratory or on the drawing board often turns out to have a lot of consequences that would have horrified its inventors. And sometimes, what even seems to be really helpful and benign developments have downrange effects and consequences that have been anything but benign.
My feeling is that we, as a species, are not smart enough to be dealing with reaching inside the nuclei to create new life forms.
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