Quotes by Leon Kass

Leon Kass

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

Disease

Promise

Suffering

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

Idaho

Kind

Offering

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.

Creating

Made

Might

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

Biology

Late

Life Is

But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don’t have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

Class

Emotional

Real

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

Children

Looks

Parent

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

Cloning

Example

Powerful

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

Country

Mean

Wish

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

Brain

Genetics

Mind

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

Accomplishment

Giving

Religion

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Abortion

Accomplishment

Ancient

Animal

Argument

Baby

Believe

Biology

Bites

Boundaries

Brain

Care

Century

Children

Choices

Class

Cloning

Copies

Country

Creating

Culture

Decision

Disease

Disposition

Effort

Emotional

Engineering

Ethics

Example

Existence

Fetus

Forgotten

Generations

Genetics

Given

Giving

Growth

Hands

Happiness

Happy

Hazards

Human Cloning

Humans

Hype

Idaho

Important

Infancy Is

Injustice

Innovation

Jobs

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Quotes by Leon Kass

Leon Kass

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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