Leon Kass Quotes
49 Leon Kass quotes:
"We are on the threshold and may have already crossed the threshold of a large crisis of long-term care."
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"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."
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"Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows."
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"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."
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"Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman."
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"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."
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"We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture."
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"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."
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"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
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"We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation."
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"We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it."
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"What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?"
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"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."
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"An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems."
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"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."
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"I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning."
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"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."
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