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Why would anyone do that? It makes a great dystopian novel storyline, but no other medical advancement has ever been treated that way. The elites could easily have everyone dying of simple infections, but I can get antibiotics for $5 at the Walmart pharmacy. The elites could easily have people elderly dying of heart disease at much higher rates but Medicare pays tens of thousands of dollars for heart surgery on senior citizens.

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No one is being evil by trying to harm others. Everyone is just seeing if they can get a reasonable advantage for themselves. All of us are doing it on a scale that's available to us, it's an emergent behaviour, not a conspiracy.

"Surely doing wild west genetic engineering would be bad, right? So let's have oversight and laws around it."

"But our friends advised us to check out that one clinic when we're in Dubai next time, and their kids are really exceptionally pretty and are doing so well in sports. I want to be careful for our baby since my grandfather had that one condition..."

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