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Ok, so if pam isn’t Kate and Lollipop isn’t Kate then who is Kate?
Incidentally, what is wrong with Kate?
Just because we can do something, doesn’t necessarily mean we should do something.
Human beings have a tendancy to meddle and then repent at leisure.
Meddling with human embryos may well in the short term bring blessed hope to those people who may die otherwise, but we do not yet know the full consequences of this decision. Whatever those consequences may be, we may not find out for many years.
Holding life sacred in my opinion simply means taking responsibility for your own actions where it has impact on others. When a decision is made by a government to meddle in this kind of way, we have to hold our breaths metaphorically to see what the impact might be over the course of time.
That is the whole point, we DON’T decide. Nature does.
Hybrid embryos are hardly natural, they are genetically engineered. And I think breeding dogs until they can’t breathe and their spines snap is disgusting. Breeding anything for a specific requirement is not natural. Donkeys and horses have bred in the wild, and a mule is the result, and nature has found a way to prevent it continuing by making mules sterile.
Humans aren’t that sensible.
So you ignore the fact I said it was a complex issue, but that the benefits outweight the moral undertainty and home in on the… all life is sacred bit.
All life is sacred, and that is why this is a complex issue.
And.. a lion killing its prey, is natural. Humans haven’t genetically modified a lion so it will deliberately kill something, it is just natures way. And… incidentally, humans also kill zebras, and that I do believe is wrong.
What part of my post did you not understand?
Its a complex issue. I am not keen on our meddling with nature to be honest, but are these embryos semi human, or just a cluster of cells with a certain genetic blueprint?
The rules seem pretty tight and the benefits are said to outweight the moral uncertainty factor.
They are 99.9% human apparently, but then the 0.1% could take us back to a previous argument about the difference between chimps and humans.
All life is sacred.
@*Sian wrote:
@minim wrote:
@tinks wrote:
It was this………….
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=52sjKHByA5k
have to say I was hoping it was gonna be the Beatles………c’est la vie :roll:
I want that one !!! :D
What did you get?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeQpeDkoGc&feature=related
:D
@tinks wrote:
It was this………….
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=52sjKHByA5k
have to say I was hoping it was gonna be the Beatles………c’est la vie :roll:
I want that one !!! :D
I can think of things I’d rather put in my mouth.
As someone once said….The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
If they have….they must be pretty dumb.
