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I have mixed feelings with this. I personally have several illnesses and disabilities which I wouldn't mind to disappear. Problem is that I'm not so convinced that doctors will be able to gain sufficient understanding in near future to avoid unintended consequences.

For example doctors had fine, research based theory on mechanism how certain migraine medicine works. However further research has proven this theory (which details I no longer remember) to be false. So at the moment there is medicine which usually terminates migraine attack but doctors don't know why it does so.

As disease is genetic in nature it could in theory be cured with genetic engineering but what happens if their theory after all isn't correct? Disease is not hereditarily dominant in nature, instead there are likely to be combination of genes affecting properties of disease and that disease only appears when correct combination received from both parents is present. There is risk that change that appears to be "curing" disease is merely plastering it under wraps or in worst case also altering it be more severe.

When you open wraps around your Christmas gift you don't always like what you get and I'm afraid that this won't be any different. Somewhere down the road there may be day when Homo-you-tell-me-what will curse us over our decisions.

I'm not saying using genetic engineering is automatically bad thing but there should be great caution on how it is done.