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Leon Kass

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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


#bad #creating #creature #destroy #god

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


— Leon Kass


#children #life #live #only #our

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


— Leon Kass


#children #cloning #degrading #like #looks

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


— Leon Kass


#cloning #effects #family #hard #make

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


— Leon Kass


#doing #engineering #enough #kinds #may

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


— Leon Kass


#cheap #easy #might #source #very

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


— Leon Kass


#against #case #fetus #interests #life

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


— Leon Kass


#choice #existence #our #owe #parents

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


— Leon Kass


#almost #biotechnology #cure #disease #enthusiastic

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


#countries #did #even #following #foolishness






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Leon R. While biotechnology offers great promise for health care it has applications for "many other ends good ones and bad. Kass places "special value on the natural human cycle of birth procreation and death" and views death as a "necessary and desirable end" and the human and human aspirations that are derived from it.

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Kass is currently the Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and the Hertog Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His books include Toward A More Natural Science: Biology and Human Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of our Nature; Life Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics; The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis; and What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story Speech and Song.

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