If we can edit out or fix the genes tied to various genetic disorders, we can save a lot of families a lot of grief. WITHOUT simply tossing the embryo, which various people liken to abortion.

It's not unethical - it's a tool that can be used ethically or unethically. You can use it to save people from a lifetime of grief, or, if you WANT to be unethical, you could create your 'Brave New World' underclass of betas and gammas to do all the work while the 1%er alphas lounge about.

Your betas are your 'professional' class, your gammas are the working poor, and your alphas are the 1%ers.

Scientifically this is all wonderful and fascinating but how do you stop this from being used for nefarious reasons? For example, I now see researchers being hired to see if there's a gay gene and if found, it being eradicated.

Also, at some point we have to decided how much illness we want to stamp out. The earth can barely handle the amount of people we have now with nature taking its course with illness and disease--how does she handle people not dying of natural causes?

"Editing" sounds too precise for GM which is more like billiards than movie making. You shoot at one ball, you move 4 others.

Or perhaps a genetic crapshoot.