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You've reminded me that I want to open discussion on the moral aspects of cloning. I'll chuck in some precursors to that here then:The charge of playing god is usually an implicit appeal to naturalism: "Thou shalt not overstep the boundaries of that which you should be able to do."This in itself is a meaningless charge. Where it might have significant import is as an admonition for scientists not to fall to hubris, and presume that we are able to do much more than we can in our excitement, as our understanding is at all times incomplete.Most medical practicioners and researchers agree that stem cell research really has much potential medically and IS very important. Bush laid down the veto to additional funding because he believed that what stem cell research entails was tantamount to destroying human lives...which is consistent if vacuous- but he forgot to look up the facts of just how many 'human lives' our current practices were already destroying.
You've reminded me that I want to open discussion on the moral aspects of cloning. I'll chuck in some precursors to that here then:
The charge of playing god is usually an implicit appeal to naturalism: "Thou shalt not overstep the boundaries of that which you should be able to do."
This in itself is a meaningless charge. Where it might have significant import is as an admonition for scientists not to fall to hubris, and presume that we are able to do much more than we can in our excitement, as our understanding is at all times incomplete.
Most medical practicioners and researchers agree that stem cell research really has much potential medically and IS very important. Bush laid down the veto to additional funding because he believed that what stem cell research entails was tantamount to destroying human lives...which is consistent if vacuous- but he forgot to look up the facts of just how many 'human lives' our current practices were already destroying.
