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To: aladin who wrote (53512)	7/8/2004 10:40:52 PM
From: Lane3	of 793905

Stem cells are a big issue, but what if its a red herring? It's hard to tell how big a deal it's going to be. Whether it pans out or not, seems to me we can't afford to fall behind. There's enormous potential for health and commercial value. Not everything that seems promising pans out. But we follow all of them and some of them will pay off. The line between what is ethical and unethical is important and needs discourse. Most definitely. What do you consider unethical? I consider most of what most people do on a daily basis to be unethical. I consider standing up a date unethical. Or sticking your chewing gum to the bottom of your seat in the movie theater. Or wearing something you bought and then returning it to the store. Perhaps that's not what you had in mind. <g> I definitely don't find unethical making use of a discarded embryo for the advancement of health care. I've had the organ-donor box on my driver's license checked forever. I don't know about unethical, but it seems churlish and ungenerous not to. Do you at least concede that someone else may find your view backward? Most likely. I'm not particularly hip. And I'm not at all cavalier about ethical issues. People have different ideas about what is forward and what is backward. What if the Chinese decide to move ahead with cloning - do we go down that road? Not of humans. I have yet to hear a good reason for doing that and can think of a lot of reasons not to.

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