Genetic engineering to cure diseases is eugenics. And eugenics has more wrong with it than guilt by association. It's inherently a dangerous activity, potentially far more dangerous than anything Hitler did.
That's the worst argument in the world.
Its danger is contextually expanded due to our dearth of understanding of the processes we engineer
And that is closer to discussing the substance instead of the archetypal example in the category, so might as well skip the first part.
No, I was referencing the "worst argument" as posited in the article, and contrasting from it. I can see how this might have been misunderstood (my wording was poor) but it would be quite silly to literally repeat the fallacious argument from the article as if it hadn't already been discredited, wouldn't it?
Eugenics is inherently dangerous; the danger is far worse than the associations drawn in the "worst argument". I am not saying eugenics is bad because Hitler did it, in fact I'm saying the co... (read more)