If we abstain from such genetic research, you are therefore saying ISIS, the PRC, etc. would be so inspired that they, too, would abstain from that research..?
The opposite is true.
And I KNOW that China’s own research proceeds totally independent of our own, our laws has impeded us that much already.
Most US labs can do little w/o Chinese grad students, or at least that is the feeling now, true or not.
Doctor Mengele tried to turn kids’ eyes from brown to green. He used caustic chemicals and blinded them, but it actually worked. Of course, their genes weren’t altered in the process but this technology, and Crispir would have made Hitler drool. Worse people than Hitler have yet to be born, and they will do freakish, freakish things. Yes, some things should be abstained from. Let the Chinese leap ahead of us in chimera technology. Let them be damned. And again, you don’t need a Bible to be worried about this stuff. Christians understand something better than most- human beings are bent towards evil. There is very little good in us. The probability for mischief with this tech is 100%