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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Biotechnology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
- Degrading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
- Genetics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
- Cloning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020