He said, There is always loss, always failure. Don’t you think these
experiments are going on in secret, in other parts of the world? Where
human life is cheap? And if a hostile power were to achieve this … Jesus
– they have already modified an embryo in China. Without any oversight
or protocol at all. Don’t you think they are working on other things too?
This is madness, I said.
What is sanity? he said. Can you tell me? Poverty, disease, global
warming, terrorism, despotism, nuclear weapons, gross inequality, misogyny, hatred of the stranger.