Microscopic surgeries have enabled such procedures, they should have never been allowed, sequencing the DNA has also enable such atrocities, all should he banned.
How about avoiding slippery slopes and keep it to how man actually miss-ususes knowledge, not that such knowledge is inherently evil.
Some knowledge is evil but I would hardly call the stuff we are talking about here occult knowledge.
You argue mine is a slippery slope
Yours is a straw man