Leon Kass quotes

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. (Leon Kass)
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. View quote
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Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. View quote
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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. View quote
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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. View quote
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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. View quote
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. View quote
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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. View quote
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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. View quote
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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. View quote
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The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. (Leon Kass)
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? View quote
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The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. View quote
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In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. View quote
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Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. View quote
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There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. View quote
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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. View quote
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. View quote
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The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. View quote
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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. View quote
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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)
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. View quote
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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. View quote
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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right. View quote
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Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. View quote
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