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To: LtdGovt

You think morality has no place in the real world, only in the ivory tower of philosophers?

Disturbing.


9 posted on 02/05/2007 7:30:50 PM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos
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.
11 posted on 02/05/2007 7:38:37 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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