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Posted on 09/16/2002 7:08:42 PM PDT by Pokey78
Definately not superman (probably never was) ... more like super-baby-murderer. Ghouls like this should be allowed to die in peace.
1) you are not the only person on this planet
2) nobody forced you to ride a horse and get hurt
3) if you think the current President (not to mention those who proceeded him) is the sole reason you do not walk today, then a new pair of legs and a spine are the least of your needs (hint: get a brain).
Josef Megle was in agreement with that too!
Does the end justify the means? Do you think it only religion that argues ethics, or do you believe in ethics as a viable guideline at all?
Reeves wants a miracle.He cares little if it is medical or spiritual, he just wants it. I would too, given his position. But I hope I could see that sometimes the price of that miracle is more than a reasonable society should expect to pay.
I dont think I have the right to another human beings kidney.The medical ability is there, but do I have the "right" to "harvest" this organ from another human being, even if they are willing to "sell" it to the medical community?
Just because something can be done, does not mean it should be done.What if my, or your child was discovered to have a specific mutated gene that cured all cancer,located in her epidermal.Should the medical community, and the world then force her to produce skin grafts for the rest of her life to provide wealthy and/or poor people with a cure?
Reduce it to an ovary and an unfertilised egg.My child, or yours, is deemed the perfect producer of perfect research eggs.What would give science the "right" to harvest those eggs?
Medical/scientific ethics is not a religious concept.It can stand alone as pure ethics.
The Great Debate
What if someone said
Promise lies ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific circles
Life won't have to end
You could walk again
What if someone said
Problems lie ahead
They've uncovered something highly controversial
The right to life is strong
Can't you see it's wrong
Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
I think we all know this discussion is limited to the question of stem cell research -- which is opposed on strictly religious grounds.
Agreed, Sinkspur -- it's a bit of a stretch to blame GWB for an action not taken some three years before he had anything to say about the subject.
And also, Mr. Reeve, although not perhaps as seriously afflicted as you or as financially well-off, there are some of us (like the owner of FR) who do not play the blame game in their feigned "concern" for the disabled, but manage to accomplish great things without all the fanfare.
Besides ... it's pretty rich for Reeves to blame Bush when clearly only a pro-lifer quoting Scripture from The Book of his favorite philosopher could have pulled off the Already-been-killed Compromise by which he kept his campaign promise and kneecapped those GOP who would think to criticize his cleverness.
No way in hell the GOP would have let Clinton get away with capitalizing on "Excess" human lives thus.
Get serious. It's a scientific FACT that life begins at conception and that the entire genetic package is complete.
Barring a life's being frozen alive, chemically prevented from implanted or surgically dismembered and killed, that human life lives until its natural death.
Either all men are created equal or they are not. There is nothing "religious" about it ... save perhaps your Faith in your Personal Opinion about when a human life is really worth living.
In this respect -- your ability to judge what lives are fully human and what lives are subhuman; which lives are worth living and which lives are not worth living -- indeed you share the same philosophy as the Austrians and Germans who gassed the feeble and the Jews, as well as the Germans and Japanese who vivisected their POW "logs" alive.
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That's probably kinda like what the Nazis had in mind when performing their atrocities on the Jews and other undesirables, huh? Ironically, in their case they used the state's power to advance medical knowledge without the hindrance of any religious influence or agenda.
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