Leon Kass

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. ↗

— Leon Kass

#covet #devoted #generation #life #long

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. ↗

— Leon Kass

#kind #me #opportunity #renaissance #seems

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants. ↗

— Leon Kass

#child #every #exists #our #satisfy

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. ↗

— Leon Kass

#cleverness #far #how #how far #limits

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. ↗

— Leon Kass

#ban #banned #cloning #countries #efforts

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. ↗

— Leon Kass

#effects #many #often #people #recognize

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

#decision #job #knows #makes #possible

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. ↗

— Leon Kass

#fertilization #knew #large #nobody #safe

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. ↗

— Leon Kass

#hands #human #human hands #human life #knows

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? ↗

— Leon Kass

#bad #been #century #could #good