Posted on 06/20/2004 2:17:03 PM PDT by Coleus
Edited on 06/20/2004 2:19:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
...Seems Dr. Frist forgot about that fact. All organisms strive, sruggle to survive at inception, and only the living can terminate it...
The research in embryonic stem cells is all about cloning, and cloning is all about designer babies and living forever. But, the object of the whole thing is "production." Turning people into interchangeable units, made up of smaller interchangeable units available to those who have the power to take.
It's all about power, over ourselves and others, and - like the images of God that we are - to re-create ourselves and our children and our world.
The horrible thing is that, since we are not God, since we are fallible (and, some of us believe, fallen, as shown by the fact that there are always flaws and even booby traps in everything in the world and in everything we do), the way the re-creation is proposed is by turning those units into less than human. They are less than human if they can be killed at the whim of other humans for their usefulness as parts.
If the parts are interchangeable units and we are not inseparable beings, if we are not to be valued as whole, then we are no better than machines.
The whole is better than parts.
(Okay, I'm watching "I, Robot" on TV. It's a shame Dr. Assimov didn't really "get it.")
I do not know about "definitive word" but negative correlation is there.
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