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Captain-Murphy rated 3 months ago- Its not a slippery slope. Health science doesn't have some alternative motive to kill people in mad scientific experiments. This would all be transparent, regulated, and documented science.
He clearly stated that a blastula does not constitute human life, at least any more than the semen you didn't clean off your keyboard last night. And that the reasoning blocking this research is a vague moral issue concerning 'the soul.'
If you listen to his actual words, the talk was about human suffering. The HIV argument (aside from not making any sense, people with HIV don't have damaged genetic material, they have a virus) would increase suffering on a multitude of levels.- Its not a slippery slope. Health science doesn't have some alternative motive to kill people in mad scientific experiments. This would all be transparent, regulated, and documented science.
- 91KP rated 3 months ago
- Hmmmmmmmmmmm...... Well, I am an athiest - so I don't think I disagree due to religion. I don't believe I have been indoctrinated through all of my life, so that isn't it. Comes down to a hard line - either you respect life or you don't. If it's "okay" to steal life from an embryo for the benefit of three year old, isn't it alright to steal the life from one 6 year old if that will benefit 60 million 40 year olds? You cross the line, and it becomes not an issue of right or wrong, but an issue of "what can I get away with". Slippery slope arguments may not always be true, but this one is. If you question that, listen to his actual words - the argument wasn't about what constitutes a human life. There was no statement of that at all. He questioned and indeed did his best to ridicule the idea of "soul mathmatics". But the sole justification for taking that human embryo, was the mathmatics of benefit. That taking one potential life could benefit "tens of millions". Certainly then is it not equally as justifiable to society to prevent those infected with HIV or other communicable from contact with clean people? Preventing those with genetic defects from passing their damaged genetic material along? That would save more lifes, provide more benefit, and kill fewer people than embryonic stem cell research could ever hope to provide.
- rumplesmigskin rated 3 months ago
- It is a blindness that goes by another name. It goes by the name of "religious faith". And we have been cowed into respecting it.
Wise words indeed, sir. - It is a blindness that goes by another name. It goes by the name of "religious faith". And we have been cowed into respecting it.
- Emmers rated 3 months ago
- Sam Harris makes my day. He is calm, unassuming, and still as sharp as a pin.
- dynotoaqrimp rated 3 months ago
- I like his argument for stem cell research. Great points.
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