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When genetic editing targets personality traits

My husband's family has a genetic predisposition to violence and aggression and he wants to edit it out of our future children but I worry about changing human nature

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The desire to remove harmful tendencies confronts questions about whether difficult aspects of human nature serve essential purposes.

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