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xor@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•CRISPR-edited trees reduce the energy and water required to make paperEnglish7·2 years agoI mean I guess one of the biggest arguments for gene editing is that humans have been modifying the genetics of plants and animals for thousands of years, to the great benefit of humankind. While this was through selective breeding, gene editing is fundamentally a very similar ethical question.
Without genetic modification, it would have been beyond impossible to feed everyone, or even get somewhat past subsistence farming.
Modifying humans, however, is a totally different question to mosifying trees.
xor@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?English2·2 years agoA couple of years ago I went to my GP in a very bad mental state due to what I now am fairly sure is undiagnosed ADHD.
My GP prescribed me a walk. Never been willing to try to talk to that doctor again.
Just move to another instance if you’re so mad about who they defederate
That’s, like, the entire point