Leon Kass Quotes

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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.
• Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
• If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
• Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
• 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.
• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
• An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
• Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
• 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…
• 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…
• Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
• Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
• I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
• I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
• 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.
• Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
• The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

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