Words matter. These are the best Leon Kass Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
I don’t like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
I’ve been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn’t have a choice.
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
The neuroscience area – which is absolutely in its infancy – is much more important than genetics.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
It’s a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the… cleverness that we have to make changes.
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God’s image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one’s own.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
We know next to nothing of what we’re going to know in 20 or 50 years.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.