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Argument Quote by Leon Kass

“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.” quote by Leon Kass — Download Open image

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

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

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

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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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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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

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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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