Leon Kass Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Leon Kass Quotes and Sayings
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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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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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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
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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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Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
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Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
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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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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
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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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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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It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
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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.
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It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
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Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
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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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Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
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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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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.
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Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
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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.
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
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Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
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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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The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
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The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
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The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
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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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There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
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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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We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
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We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
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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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We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
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We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
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We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
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What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
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