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Leon Kass quotes: Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Leon Kass quotes: The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Leon Kass quotes: Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

Leon Kass quotes: 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.

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.

Leon Kass quotes: Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Leon Kass quotes: As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Leon Kass quotes: Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

Leon Kass quotes: There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

Leon Kass quotes: What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Leon Kass quotes: One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Leon Kass quotes: If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

Leon Kass quotes: 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.

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.

Leon Kass quotes: The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Leon Kass quotes: We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Leon Kass quotes: I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Leon Kass quotes: Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

Leon Kass quotes: It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Leon Kass quotes: Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Leon Kass quotes: It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

Leon Kass quotes: I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Leon Kass quotes: Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Leon Kass quotes: Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Leon Kass quotes: We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

Leon Kass quotes: Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Leon Kass quotes: Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Leon Kass quotes: There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Leon Kass quotes: 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.

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.

Leon Kass quotes: We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Leon Kass quotes: Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Leon Kass quotes: In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Leon Kass quotes: The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Leon Kass quotes: I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass quotes: An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Leon Kass quotes: Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes.

Leon Kass quotes: We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Leon Kass quotes: We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Leon Kass quotes: We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Leon Kass quotes: There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Leon Kass quotes: The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Leon Kass quotes: The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

Leon Kass quotes: I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

Leon Kass quotes: In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

Leon Kass quotes: The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Leon Kass quotes: 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.

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.

Leon Kass quotes: Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass quotes: Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

Leon Kass quotes: If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Leon Kass quotes: The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

Leon Kass quotes: Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.