Posted by eloaf on May 29, 2005, at 12:18:30
In reply to Re: Whats wrong with stem cell research, posted by Nickengland on May 29, 2005, at 4:51:23
> I dont see a problem with stem cell research for servere life threatening illness(s)
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> However there are some iussues with stem cell research that cause alot of controversial agruements and quite rightly so.
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> These arguements are about the issues of so called "designer babies"...being able to choose your childs eye colour, hair colour, their intelligence levels etc.. This is where the research drifts from the point of helping people to have healthy babies which are free of serious illness, to then taking the reseach to the level of a "fashion" baby.
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> This is where people would begin to play god in my opinion. How far do you go with this reseach and the benefits it can bring to society?Surely some folks are crazed and selfish enough to be so materalistic that they would want to create the perfect child or for that matter perfect race of people. It seems to me though that we are meant to use our technology to be good keepers of the earth and good keepres of the earth would, in my opinion, use stem cell technology to help people... The debate over what actually helps people and what dose not is what the real argument should be about; not wether or not one specific technology is the cause for good or harm... Its not knowledge or technology that is our enemy its how we use it.
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> The worst thing that could happen is repeat of history in a sense of the Nazis...improving a race of people and exterminating the inperfect??...hmm
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> Only time will tell what happens in the future, the benefits of eradicating serious illness though is definately a good idea, I don't see how anyone could disagree that, just depends how far they push the reseach.
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