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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Leon Kass

Technology

People

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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Countries

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

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Cleverness

Limits

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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Family

Arguments

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.

Leon Kass

Belief

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

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.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

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Contrast

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

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Life

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Leon Kass

Beginning

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.