Quotes from Leon Kass


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    Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

    Cloning | Universal | Ban


    What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

    Individual | Flourish


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

    Respect | Against | Lived


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

    Parents | Cloning | Looks


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

    Work | Brain | Genetics


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

    Next


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

    Unlimited | Reproduce


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

    Abortion | Altogether | Stance


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

    Life | Hands | Boundaries


    It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

    Family | Argument | Cloning


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

    Life | Science | Meaning


    If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

    Process | Seriously | Stop


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

    Progress | Powerful | Benefits


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

    Improve | Tension | Ancient


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

    Genetics | Absolutely | Area


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

    Good | Ethics | Thinking


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

    Child | Product | Contrast


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

    Suffering | Disease | Promise


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

    Innovation | Growth | Economic


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

    Powerful | Danger | Cloning


       

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