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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

Leon Kass

Thoughts

Being

Sound

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Kass

Tension

World

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Leon Kass

Ethics

Thinking

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Leon Kass

Life

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Leon Kass

Right

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Leon Kass

Fear

Babies

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Leon Kass

Longevity

Past

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

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.

Leon Kass

Celebrity

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

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.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Leon Kass

Genetics