Leon Kass quotes - page 2

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. (Leon Kass)
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. View quote
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An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. View quote
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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. View quote
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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. View quote
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It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. View quote
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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. View quote
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We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. (Leon Kass)
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. View quote
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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. View quote
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We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. View quote
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We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. View quote
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We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. View quote
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Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. View quote
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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. View quote
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It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. View quote
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Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. View quote
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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. (Leon Kass)
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. View quote
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What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? View quote
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Prudence is ... more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery. View quote
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Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike. View quote
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