If you are rich and chose to kill people as toys, who cares?! Question is, is sick freak paying them enough to serve as his lab rats.
REALY. If the science is good(and that is easy to determine by other science and engineering types) there will be a line hundreds of miles long to sign up.
Your model? We never would have left Europe, Left Africa, gone to the moon, climed out of trees.
Moving forward is not for the timid.