Very torn indeed. Living in China, where some of the most progress seems to be happening I get a pretty dystopian outlook of the potential slippery slopes people discuss.

Given that countless girl babies get abandoned on the streets so couples can legally have another try at a boy, and given that the fuerdai population here - 'rich second generation', raised on all the wealth of their parents, but none of the actual parenting - have no idea how to function as a member of society, I can certainly see some sci-fi divide generations from now between rich designer humans and the 'low-end population' (government's actual words), that have less rights than most monkeys in India.

But in terms of current times, real world applications, I don't have any particular qualms with fighting diseases and correcting certain debilitating conditions, but regulation is gonna have to take decades for this to work properly. It's just too ahead of the human comfort zone to sit nicely for most people, i'd say.