Leon Kass Quotes


There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. Leon Kass Babies 101
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. Leon Kass Caution 93
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Leon Kass Engineering 91
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. Leon Kass Between 87
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. Leon Kass Care 86
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. Leon Kass Disposition 82
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. Leon Kass Folly 81
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. Leon Kass Absolutely 81
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. Leon Kass Country 80
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. Leon Kass Almost 77
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 Consideration 76
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. Leon Kass Science 74
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. Leon Kass Clear 73
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. Leon Kass Science 73
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. Leon Kass Advertising 71
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. Leon Kass Economic 70
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. Leon Kass Abortion 69
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. Leon Kass Family 69
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Leon Kass Already 69
What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? Leon Kass Flourish 68
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. Leon Kass Appreciated 66
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. Leon Kass Culture 66
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. Leon Kass Came 64
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right. Leon Kass Reproduce 64
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. Leon Kass Respect 64
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 Celebrity 61
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. Leon Kass Changes 58
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. Leon Kass Cloning 57
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Leon Kass Child 52
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. Leon Kass Abortion 51
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass Boundaries 49
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Leon Kass Happy 46
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. Leon Kass Technology 45
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. Leon Kass Brain 45
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? Leon Kass Ask 45
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman. Leon Kass Equally 43
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. Leon Kass Advance 37
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. Leon Kass Animal 33
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. Leon Kass Ethics 31

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