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Originally Posted by levite
My one potential exception to this line of thinking might be if we were serious about colonizing other planets, and if that were really a practicable option, then it might behoove us to modify the colonists to survive on different partial proportions of oxygen, or to be able to resist or process other atmospheric gases in different partial proportions or pressures than on Earth, or to be denser boned and muscled or more lightly boned and muscled to best use different gravities, and suchlike.
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Good point. There may come a time when genetic engineering becomes not just practical but necessary. If we know a natural disaster is 100 years off, changing our abilities and limitations could be a matter of survival.
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Originally Posted by ObieX
or example they say in the documentary that one gene that is responsible for causing breast cancer has been patented. The result of this is that every single researcher that attempts to use this gene in some way in their research TO CURE BREAST CANCER has been shut down by the people who own the patent on the gene. That is, of course, unless they pay a huge amount of money for the privilege.
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Whoa, well I'd say we absolutely, positively should not be able to patent genes that deal with medical issues. I don't want a greedy corporation monopolizing a cure and standing between me and the health of my child, or in the case of breast cancer, my mother/wife/daughter.
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BTW, I'd be okay allowing eternal life so long as an individual had the legal right to end his or her own life.