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"It feels too much like playing god."

Everything that is on the leading edge of medical science feels like playing god and some people will loudly protest against it, but the next generation will consider the very same thing absolutely normal and expected.

IVF was once "playing god".

Heart transplants were once "playing god".

Resuscitation was once "playing god".

Surgeries of inner organs were once "playing god".

Vaccination against smallpox was once "playing god".



Denying people lifesaving medical care is, and will always be, "playing god."


Then that also applies to providing it. If the solution is to provide it to everybody, you can't, so you'll have to be selective. So even creating life-saving medicine means denying it to some people. Moral dilemmas everywhere you tread, as is normal.




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