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Leon Kass

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


— Leon Kass


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


— Leon Kass


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


— Leon Kass


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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.


— Leon Kass


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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.


— Leon Kass


#bites #forced #i #like #reduce

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.


— Leon Kass


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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.


— Leon Kass


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If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.


— Leon Kass


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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.


— Leon Kass


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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


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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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