[LtdGovt]

My apologies if you misunderstood me, I do believe that we have an obligation to live our lives with morals and reason. But, I don't think that the medical profession is the best place to fight out arguments like these, the choice will always be made in favor of an approach that allows for more research, that's the nature of the game. For example, there is no doubt in my mind that medical researchers would clone humans (which is terrible), if they thought that they could extract cures and knowledge, through cloning humans. At the philosophy department, you could persuade the public mind of your position and move politicians to ban cloning. You aren't going to stop other researchers from moving on, if you are a medical reseracher.

What's interesting, is that anti-American professor Noam Chomsky is siding with this professor.

Linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky and 10 other MIT professors want Sherley's case re-examined.

[Mount Athos]

Oh, I understood you clearly.

You don't think it is appropriate for this professor to speak out on the morality of research conducted by his peers. You think he should shut up.

You say you think we have an obligation to live our lives with morals and reason. How consistant is this with your view that people should not pause to consider morality, or at least not speak out about it? That this should somehow be left to philosphers instead of everyday people? I think your stance is altogether immoral and unconscionable.

I am of the opposite opinion. Morality is everyone's business! Just because you are a scientist doesn't mean you abandon your conscience, your morality, your voice. This man was speaking out about the activities of his peers at his institution. What you are saying, is that people should not consider morality in their everyday life, leave morality to philosphy departments. If someone asks us why we let immoral acts happen without pausing to consider or say anything, we can just say we were following orders.

Our laws are influenced by everyday people, as well as experts in their field as this man was. Both are far more influential in our laws than philosophy departments.