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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (33395)	3/26/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) of 108807

Extension. This century has seen much debate about what it means to be human. The Nazis performed scientific experiments on humans and were excoriated for it. The nasty ones - the painful unanesthetized surgeries got the most press - but there were more morally neutral programs as well. But there is a strong prevailing ethic in Western society that a human is an unfit subject for tinkering. This will be an obsolete ethic in a century. It will amount to biological Luddism. Those societies who hold on to an atavistic conceit of the sanctity of the human body will be marginalized by those who expand the boundary of what is human. We hear the voices today of those who oppose tinkered tomatoes and Dolly the Sheep as morally wrong, as Frankensteinian hubris. There will be mistakes. There will be Gothic horrors loosed among us. At the same time there will be wondrous beauty and virtue snake-charmed up from the basket of our collective genome, goodness to equal and exceed the horror. Those of us who would not deny destiny must face these new-old moral issues head on and speak, because only then will the engineers listen to the rest of us and place wise constraints on their play at omnipotence.

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