I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
- Leon Kass
Believe, Only, Efforts, Prohibit
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
- Leon Kass
Other, Countries, Many, Ban
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
- Leon Kass
Mind, Genetics, Goes, Neuroscience
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
- Leon Kass
Innovation, Important, Technological
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
- Leon Kass
Over, Been, Increased, Longevity
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
- Leon Kass
Tension, Wanting, Given, Savor
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
- Leon Kass
Kind, Pharmaceutical, Amount, Instantaneous
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
- Leon Kass
Very, About, Effects, Relations
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
- Leon Kass
Decision, Possible, Makes, Richest
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
- Leon Kass
Right, Unlimited, Reproduce, So-Called
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
- Leon Kass
Thoughts, Like, Reduce, Sound Bites
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
- Leon Kass
Hands, No Boundaries, Slope, Slippery Slope
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
- Leon Kass
Culture, Even, Somehow, Reproduce
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
- Leon Kass
How, Set, Cleverness, Limits
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
- Leon Kass
Woman, Abortion, Against, Case
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
- Leon Kass
Prospect, About, Lot, Hype
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
- Leon Kass
Looks, Like, Degrading, Between
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
- Leon Kass
Infected, Which, Even, Technological
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
- Leon Kass
Rogue, Countries, Our, Justify
What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
- Leon Kass
Mean, Individual, Does, Flourish
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
- Leon Kass
Often, Side, Effects, Unintended
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
- Leon Kass
Everybody, Biotechnology, Enthusiastic
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 images of one's own.
- Leon Kass
Image, Very, Images, Creature
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
- Leon Kass
Knew, Would, Large, Fertilization
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
- Leon Kass
Process, Stop, Preventing, Reproductive
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
- Leon Kass
Important, Area, Which, Neuroscience
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
- Leon Kass
Clear, Very, Which, Manufacture
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
- Leon Kass
Important, Abortion, Toward, Controversy
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
- Leon Kass
Questions, More, About, Advances
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass
Doing, Some, Proceed, Engineering
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
- Leon Kass
Doing, Some, May, Engineering
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.
- Leon Kass
Wanted, Satisfy, Our, Exists
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
- Leon Kass
Existence, Choice, Actually, Owe
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
- Leon Kass
Powerful, Benefits, Hazards, Biomedical
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
- Leon Kass
Never, Other, Folly, Rush
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
- Leon Kass
Late, Biology, Notion, Meaning
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
- Leon Kass
Parent, Could, Sympathize, Copy
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
- Leon Kass
Animal, Social, Evolved, Human Animal
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
- Leon Kass
Woman, Means, Itself, Mortality
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
- Leon Kass
Respect, Before, Toward, Respecting
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
- Leon Kass
Happiness, Might, Very, Cheap
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
- Leon Kass
Kind, Country, Which, Renaissance
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
- Leon Kass
Generation, Next, Going, Lineage
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
- Leon Kass
Been, Very, Opposed, Human Cloning
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
- Leon Kass
Life, Just, Technical, Disposition
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
- Leon Kass
Two, Contrast, Cloning, Product
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.
- Leon Kass
Generation, Well-Being, Next, Argument
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
- Leon Kass
Responsibility, Own, Take, Take Care
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