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To: ManyMoose who wrote (14666)	11/13/2006 6:26:02 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

No, I guess I still don't understand your position. There is a moral line to almost any medical or scientific area of study. You could argue that, for example, physicists should stop researching because of the potential for new and terrible weapons that make the atomic bomb look like a firecracker. You could argue that chemists should stop researching because of the potential for discovering of new and terrible chemical weapons, or biologists because of new biological weapons, etc. I agree that we should discuss what these moral lines are, but I don't think we should stop research in a promising area because of hypothetical areas of abuse.