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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass

Science

Life

Meaning

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

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Folly

Nations

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

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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God

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

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Danger

Example

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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Countries

Foolishness

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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Culture

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

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Nothing

Years

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

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Successful

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.