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When preventive genetic modification creates anxiety about hypothetical problems

My doctor says I should get preventive genetic modifications to avoid diseases I might never get but the idea of changing my DNA based on statistical possibilities feels like borrowing anxiety from an imaginary future.

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Preventing suffering that may never occur can create present suffering that definitely exists.

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