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ahem, on topic: I voted "genetic, ok" with much the same feeling as those already expressed. Artificial selection has existed since long before there was scientific understanding of the process, in plants even before in animals.
My waffling on the subject of lab-based modifications goes more in the direction of resource allocation. Is it right to devote the mechanical and human resources required for such an effort to what is essentially a frivolity, when it could be spent on cures for disease, relief from suffering, or just a deeper understanding of the biological process in general?
I dunno. Well, yes, I do know, but as I have not yet been proclaimed Empress of Earth my opinions on such matters do not yet prevail.![]()
And re: the Jurassic Park angle, decades earlier Robert Heinlein wrote a little story called "Jerry Was a Man." Monkeying with DNA can have unexpected consequences.
As an added point in this thought...
Technically, the original book Frankenstein was also an exercise in poor scientific ideology.