"Why? Nobody is being harmed by the creation of an artificial microbe. If it makes you uncomfortable that life is created in the laboratory, that's your problem; you have no business forcing your mystical and superstitious neuroses on others."
Is that what you think, nobody is (or will be)harmed? And just how the hell wopuld you know the possible ecological ramifications of such creations? If it makes me uncomfortable that life is being created in some lab, you better f**king believe it's my problem, and yours too. _Your_ mystical and superstitous neurosis (as with most/. folk) is that biology and ecology is a simple engineering exercise. It is orders of magnitudes more complicated.
"New life is created) (New life finds cure for humanity)"... New life creates all kinds of ecological catastrophes. Hey kids, ecology is _nothing_ like computer science - it's WAY complicated! Think of every introduction of some exotic species in order to "solve" a "problem" - 99% the time it's a disaster. I'm not going mystical on you here, but we simply don't know enough (yet?) to get too pollyannish just now.
"Science and technology will eventually create Heaven on Earth. People will live forever, all diseases will be cured, genetic manipulation will lead to more intelligent and creative humans, etc. Humans will travel to other planets."
And humans will still find a way to be miserable, because all these groovy things are not really the point. The point has something or other to do with "meaning".
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Is that what you think, nobody is (or will be)harmed? And just how the hell wopuld you know the possible ecological ramifications of such creations? If it makes me uncomfortable that life is being created in some lab, you better f**king believe it's my problem, and yours too. _Your_ mystical and superstitous neurosis (as with most /. folk) is that biology and ecology is a simple engineering exercise. It is orders of magnitudes more complicated.
"New life is created) (New life finds cure for humanity)" ... New life creates all kinds of ecological catastrophes. Hey kids, ecology is _nothing_ like computer science - it's WAY complicated! Think of every introduction of some exotic species in order to "solve" a "problem" - 99% the time it's a disaster. I'm not going mystical on you here, but we simply don't know enough (yet?) to get too pollyannish just now.
And humans will still find a way to be miserable, because all these groovy things are not really the point. The point has something or other to do with "meaning".