[NYer]

New technologies always bring new ethical dilemmas.

Formidable decisions ... as Catholics, we rely upon a body of professionals who can sort through this, within the context of Christ's teachings, and arrive at a decision. With 40,000+ non-Catholic denominations, one can only wonder how they can ever reach a truly Christ based determination.

[TradicalRC]

We can live longer so that we can live longer. Why?

[Marie]

I think that I’d appreciate a pill (shot/therapy/etc) that would keep me in perfect health, but require me to drop dead at 70.

I’ve been living with chronic illness for decades and I’d shave 5-10 years off my life to have a higher quality of life.

[Pontiac]

Cameron sees genetic manipulation as leading to a "new feudalism," wherein a "very small number of people, basically a global elite," will take advantage of a "law of compounding," using their genetic advantages to create a society with "far greater disparities" in wealth and power than currently exist. Once a certain proportion of the population has had fundamental genetic or mechanical enhancements, these societal changes will become, he says, "absolutely inevitable."

This is leftist thinking.

Unless there are laws passed to limit availability of this technology it will eventually become available to all.

In a free market society competition and advances in technology will always bring down the price of any good or service to the point where anyone who wants it can afford it unless there are impediments to the development of that product by a overweening government.

[Dajjal]

Jesus Christ incarnated, died on the cross, and rose again in order to save mankind -- men and women.

If the scientists genetically or surgically create beings which are no longer human, but are human-animal hybrids or human-electronic chimera, it is open to question whether those beings can be saved.

[Oratam]

". . . the hyper-competitive world of high school academics . . . today's children, either self-driven or pushed by their parents, go to sometimes radical extremes to achieve their goals . . . . chronic stress, teen suicide . . . Ritalin and Adderall abuse."

And I thought high school sucked in the '80s.

[the invisib1e hand]

"We're not even asking the right questions yet," admits Rev. Nicanor Austriaco, a bioethicist at Providence College.

Things like this could come in such waves as to overwhelm mankind.

Scientific omnipotence in an arrogant, immoral/amoral world ought scare the bejeezes out of anyone with any sense.

"In those days, men will seek death but it will escape them..."

[the invisib1e hand]

bodies that can't die...machines that obey thoughts... people think these things are good?

[the invisib1e hand]

Cameron, for example, calls Kurzweil "a man of genius" and "no mere academic theorist,"

"Saul, Saul, your great learning has driven you mad...."