American - Educator | February 12, 1939 -
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass
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Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
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It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
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It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
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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.
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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
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My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
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Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
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One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
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One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
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Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
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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.
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