Editing for Non-Therapeutic Enhancement: The possibility of using CRISPR for genetic enhancement—such as increased intelligence, strength, or appearance—raises profound ethical concerns. He Jiankui’s experiment, while aimed at disease resistance, was criticized as a step toward designer babies. Scientists warn against editing for non-essential traits, which could exacerbate social inequality, create new forms of discrimination, and commodify human life. There are fears of a new eugenics movement. Editing embryos for enhancement lacks medical justification and imposes irreversible changes on future generations without consent. This potential misuse represents a major scandal in anticipation, prompting global calls for moratoria on heritable human genome editing and debates on where to draw the line between therapy and enhancement.
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