Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (219585)	1/17/2002 6:35:07 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hmmmmmmm? Re the Wash Post article on Bush's Bioethics council: washingtonpost.com >>> A close reading of a few of the piece's sections result in my brain going 'Hmmmmmmmmm': "In November, researchers announced that they had made the first human embryo clones, giving immediacy to warnings by religious conservatives and others that science is no longer serving the nation's moral will. At the same time, the United States was fighting a war to free a faraway nation from the grip of religious conservatives who were denounced for imposing their moral code on others." "Until now, opponents of therapeutic cloning have largely made their case on the grounds that it would be difficult to stop someone from making a cloned baby if it were legal to make cloned embryos. But experts said that if the new panel supports the other major line of reasoning -- that human embryos are inherently deserving of protections -- such support could legitimize an effort to codify fundamentalist views into law." "The council's membership includes several well-known scholars with conservative leanings. Until Bush named him to chair the council, Kass was a leading figure in the Bioethics Project, a think tank chaired by William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, who this week said he would devote most of his political energy to getting the Senate to pass a total ban on cloning. Kass has already made clear that he sees the creation of human embryo clones as a threat to "humanity's humanity." "The group's executive director, Dean Clancy, is a "proclaimer" for the Separation of School and State Alliance, which favors home schooling over compulsory public education in order to "integrate God and education." >>> Hmmmmmmmmmm. ""We are gaining the powers to intervene in the human body and mind in an unprecedented way," Kass said. "The major motive for gaining this power is humanitarian and therapeutic . . . but the very same powers can also be used to produce fundamental changes in human nature, and even when used for good purposes may carry unavoidable consequences, negative consequences, that could challenge human decency, human dignity and respect for our humanity." >>> Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I think I detect the ultimate thrust of their future report: "The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Smash the machines, smash the machines! Luddism forever!" >>> Yep, let's all support a bigger, more intrusive federal government.... We might need help when it comes time to smash the machines....