 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. |
| We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. |
| What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish? |
| We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. |
| The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right. |
| There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. |
| If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. |
| Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. |
| The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. |
| I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. |
| If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. |
| 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. |
| We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies. |
| Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. |
| One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? |
| The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. |
| It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given. |
