Using CRISPR/Cas9, gene editing to cure diseases and what else can it be used for?

So I was reading on this CRISPR/Cas9 and it is a gene editing tool. I understand the need to use it for correcting diseases or even preventing some. I am curious what would happen if this is used to create a more obvious super human sort of. Would this be the new way to make super military armies of the future if this gene editing tool is used for more dark reasons?

This explains what it is.
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My concerns were when I read the article below and the use of it towards making super humans. I know it is just a hypothetical possibility of what it can be used for, I would be scared if this is what to come for the future.

The making of a super human?
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a reply to: CaliGirl69

Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds
Research published on Monday suggests that’s only the tip of a Titanic-sized iceberg: CRISPR-Cas9 can cause significantly greater genetic havoc than experts thought, the study concludes, perhaps enough to threaten the health of patients who would one day receive CRISPR-based therapy. The results come hard on the heels of two studies that identified a related issue: Some CRISPR’d cells might be missing a key anti-cancer mechanism and therefore be able to initiate tumors. The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit.

[Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds]Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR “Seriously Underestimated,” Study Finds[/url]

I think they'll find unintended consequences to be a major problem to overcome; I'm not convinced they ever will.

The more science messes around, the more our environment suffers, but I doubt that will slow them down any.

The Sanger scientists didn’t set out to find collateral DNA damage from CRISPR. As they investigated how CRISPR might change gene expression, a “weird thing” showed up, Bradley said: The target DNA was accurately changed, but that set off a chain reaction that engulfed genes far from the target. The scientists therefore changed course.

When they aimed CRISPR at different targets in mouse embryonic stem cells, mouse blood-making cells, and human retinal cells, “extensive on-target genomic damage [was] a common outcome,” they wrote in their paper. In one case, genomes in about two-thirds of the CRISPR’d cells showed the expected small-scale inadvertent havoc, but 21 percent had DNA deletions of more than 250 bases and up to 6,000 bases long.

a reply to: nugget1

Brings to mind the old story of "nightmare hall" inside Dulce base where there are cages with strange humanoids gone wrong from genetic manipulations.

a reply to: nugget1

Potential DNA damage from CRISPR

I belive there was a batch of children from that experiment that were incredibly intelligent- as an unintended consequence.

My memory isn't great but I seem to recall this being a well documented and even reported event

Science can do good things, but I always fear it will be used for the worst things first

I would be shocked if the military wasn't already working on CRISPRing some super soldiers. It is likely possible to make archetypal gene combinations, and with the resources of the US military I would bet they achieve it eventually.

Lebron James was probably the prototype lol

a reply to: cooperton

All top athletes are on back budget performance enhancing steroids

No other way Curry could be hitting those shots (plus that hole in one today in golf) while being almost clinically blind lol