From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 21:57:55 MST
We're one short debate and vote away from a major hit to life extension
medicine:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/852027.asp?0cv=CB10
This sort of stuff really makes me mad. I mean, government agents really
don't have to *prove* that they can kill a whole bunch of people through the
machinations of a State and human nature. Theraputic cloning is currently
criminalized in France, and well on the way to being criminalized in the US.
Last paragraph of this pretty much says it all:
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb022603.shtml
"Future generations will look back at the beginning of the 21st century with
astonishment that some very well meaning and intelligent people actually
wanted to stop biomedical research just to protect their cramped and limited
vision of human nature. They will look back, I predict, and thank us for
making their world of longer, healthier lives possible."
It's lunacy. Self-destructive, murderous lunacy, egged on by the likes of
deathists such as Kass and Fukuyama. (They're more than deathists -- they
advocate that everyone be forced to suffer and become crippled too). If
unchecked this is lunacy that will kill most of us. Once legislation like
this passes, it can be decades before it's repealed.
Gloomy, angry, fist-thumping-desk sort of day.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
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