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1 posted on 05/10/2008 10:53:48 AM PDT by steve-b
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What is ‘human dignity’? Must be some other kind of dignity besides this if we must qualify this dignity as human, so what is dignity when other than humann?


2 posted on 05/10/2008 10:56:16 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's still unclear what impact global warming will have on vertical wind shear)
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Even if progress were delayed a mere decade by moratoria, red tape, and funding taboos (to say nothing of the threat of criminal prosecution), millions of people with degenerative diseases and failing organs would needlessly suffer and die.

This is why I consider having anything to do with a crackpot like Kass to be one of Dubya's great failings, right up there with his failure to secure the borders. If the influence of that nut fringe delays major breakthroughs in life extension or the like by so much as a decade, they'll have so much blood on their hands that, compared to them, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin will be a couple of naughty little boys who should be slapped soundly upon the wrists and sent off to bed without dessert.

3 posted on 05/10/2008 11:00:55 AM PDT by steve-b (The "intelligent design" hoax is not merely anti-science; it is anti-civilization. --John Derbyshire)
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[Leon] Kass frequently makes his case using appeals to "human dignity".... In an essay with the revealing title "L'Chaim and Its Limits, " Kass voiced his frustration that the rabbis he spoke with just couldn't see what was so terrible about technologies that would extend life, health, and fertility.

All disease should be treated to improve the quality of life. When will morons like Kass realize that aging should be treated as a disease?
4 posted on 05/10/2008 1:04:44 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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