Leon Kass Quotes
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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
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The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
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The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
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The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
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We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
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An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.
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If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
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In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
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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.
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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
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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.
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The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
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One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
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Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
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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.
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Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder
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Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
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Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
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But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.
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We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
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