Re: quotations on "immoral" or "unnatural" technologies?

From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 21:10:41 MDT

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    Ramez Naam wrote:

    >Jeremy Rifkin:
    >
    >"What are the psychological implications of growing up
    > sheltered not by a warm womb but by steel and glass...

    But Jeremy, I didn't grow up in a warm womb. Did you?
    Does it matter if it is *warm* steel and glass?

    > ...belonging to no
    > one but the lab technician who joined together sperm and egg?"

    If someone came to be by other means than by the
    lab technician, presumably the usual way, who does
    the person belong to? What if she is a *really nice*
    lab technician? Why would the in vitro fetus belong
    to the lab technician anyway? Does she own *all* the
    babies she helped to bring into existence?

    Jeremy is silly. I don't know how we managed to get
    one of our guys so high up in the luddite organization.

    > I'd specifically love to find past objections to contraception, blood
    > transfusions, organ transplantation, modern telecommunications, and
    > other technologies that people now overwhelmingly view as positive.

    The jehovas witnesses object to blood transfusion.
    There should be plenty of material online about that.

    spike



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