Posted on 09/25/2015 4:27:09 PM PDT by yoe
Have you ever wondered what happened to cloning? Twenty years ago, when Dolly the sheep was still bleating, cloning was seen as the most important topic in bioethics. But over the last few years it dropped off the radar. One of our favorite journals, the New Atlantis (which is published by the Ethics and Public Policy Center), released an unsettling new report last week that sheds a great deal of light on where cloning has gone under the cover of night.
It turns out that cloning has not been put to bed as an ethical problem. If anything, the challenges it presents to human dignity have worsened dramatically:
When the world learned in 1997 of Dolly the sheep, the first clone produced from an adult mammal, a broad public discussion about the ethics of human cloning ensued, largely focused on the nature, meaning, and future of human procreation. However, following the successful derivation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998, the debate over human cloning largely shifted to the question of whether it is acceptable for scientists to create human embryos only to destroy them. The subsequent discovery of promising alternative techniques for generating stem cells without creating or destroying embryos seemed to show that scientific progress would obviate the demand for cloning.....
[snip]The New Atlantis report goes on to explain the dangers this macabre research holds for society:
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Well, if cloning allows parents total control of the Nature of their children, then any remaining problems in the world would simply indicate that the Left must be given more power to carry our social engineering so that all children may be more correctly Nurtured.
The Left, of course, wants to engage in social engineering and create heaven on earth (Immanentizing the eschaton). Once everyone has a wonderful and equally fair environment in which to grow up in, then the only piece which would have been left to chance would be the genetics -- but cloning solves that, right?.
It's evil. Both parts. From start to finish.
That’s not a clone but I get the point.
I-Robot, when man creates robots in his own image and the
robots gains self conscious is man playing god?
Is man right to destroy a sentient being simply because he
created him/her/it?
This seems to be the evening for posting still shots from classic movies of the Forties.
need a hint
Hint: Patty McCormack.
“Nightmare as a Child”
tah-dah!
“The Bad Seed”
That movie STILL creeps me out!
In the movie, they kill her off at the end with a bolt of lightning, which was done to get it past the censors. In the Broadway play, she gets away with it.
I never saw it, I thought it might be cheesy,
But if we’re calling it a classic, I’ll watch it now in my later years
TCM runs it on occasion. It’s worth a view.
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