<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The argument against human genetic engineering... > The argument against human genetic engineering becomes considerably less impressive when the genetic defect is destroying an actual human being. Tell the patient enduring sickle-cell crises that correcting the molecular machinery responsible for the disease is philosophically impure. Biology does not care about your aesthetic attachment to the original typo. When nature makes a spelling error that causes suffering, correcting the spelling error is medicine. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The argument against human genetic engineering becomes considerably less impressive when the genetic defect is destroying an actual human being. Tell the patient enduring sickle-cell crises that correcting the molecular machinery responsible for the disease is philosophically impure. Biology does not care about your aesthetic attachment to the original typo. When nature makes a spelling error that causes suffering, correcting the spelling error is medicine.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-argument-against-human-spelling-error-medicine ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->