Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
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Leon Kass
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About Leon Kass
Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, biochemist, educator, and public intellectual. Kass is best known as a proponent of liberal arts education via the "Great Books," as a critic of human cloning, life extension, euthanasia and embryo research, and for his tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as "an old-fashioned humanist. A humanist is concerned broadly…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Leon KassThere were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.