What large-scale implications should we be worried about

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Ethicists and political theorists such as Amy Guttman argue that we need a more expansive toolkit to analyze the ethical implications of the development and use of new, emergent biotechnologies.1 In "The Ethics of Synthetic Biology" she proposes expanding the classic bioethics principles for this exact purpose. This expanded set of principles includes:

• public beneficence
• responsible stewardship
• intellectual freedom and responsibility
• democratic deliberation
• justice and fairness.

In at least four hundred words, use one or more of these principles above to consider the following reports that discuss the very controversial, and real, use of CRISPR technology on the human genome that occurred a couple years ago:

Begley, Sharon. "He Took a Crash Course in Bioethics, Then Created CRISPR Babies." STAT (blog), T12:34:55+00:00.

Cyranoski, David. "What CRISPR-Baby Prison Sentences Mean for Research." Nature 577, no. 7789 (January 3, 2020): 154-55

From reading these articles, it's clear human genome editing is ethically fraught. But still, could it be that one or more of the principles support this practice? What would the conditions be? What large-scale implications should we be worried about and how do these principles address them? No need to summarize the events--spend your time applying a principle or two. Be sure to reference the above readings at least once in your response.

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