Week 6 Post 3-Introduction to the Bioethics of CRISPR

 I found my learning this week to be very interesting, as it is my topic of research. This week covered a variety of ethical concerns and possible benefits of CRISPR, which was good for my research, but I wish it was a bit more concentrated on a few points, because the documentary covered so many different areas within the CRISPR problem, and many different people. One thing that surprised me is that CRISPR is already going to, or being seriously considered to be implemented on large biases on ecosystems, and that it is sanctioned, or approved by the government. I thought that most uses of CRISPR were either in labs for research purposes or had a smaller scale impact like treating various diseases in humans. After watching that documentary I still believe the best way to handle CRISPR is to use in it a very limited, very regulated way, but it did bring up a very good point that has stuck with me, which is that CRISPR is inaccessible to a lot of people, but it does not have to be, because the technology behind it is fairly cheap to produce. It made me think if there would even be a need to have people do experiments on themselves if companies would not focus on making large profits from the technology and instead focus on helping the largest amount of people possible

    One question I have is just because we can do something, should we do it? And how to you weigh the potential benefits lost from not doing something against the potential pain that is avoided?