They often are let off the hook - witness every one of those parents who walks away free after 'forgetting' they left their kid strapped in the car on a hundred degree day.
You raise some very valid points here. You say you are certain that this is the future - I am not so sure. It certainly will be the future in forward-thinking jurisdictions, but I am pessimistic about the United States ever allowing any sorts of restrictions though. The conservative religious voting block is simply too large to ignore.
That having been said, however, I personally wouldn't have an issue with embryos being property, should they be developed. There's incredible applications for vat grown homo sapiens - least of which I can think of being transplants, and absolutely incredible insight into how disease develops. The medical and scientific knowledge to be gained from this type of experimentation certainly outweighs the negative implications - we simply need refinement in the law to state what is, and isn't permissible, and have that stand to court challenges.
The truly hard thing about living in a time when humanity is on the cusp of a second renaissance pertaining to knowledge and the ability to push beyond is the holdouts who prevent the progress. Litigate it, I say!
Does anyone here actually remember being an embryo? Does an embryo feel pain? If it cannot remember when developed, nor express that pain before it has, how is this in any way, shape, or form, an ethical issue?
We have laboratories and science to expand our knowledge. We can create life in a lab, and use it to expand knowledge. How does this become ethically problematic? If it is not viable to sustain life on its own, without the aid of technology, I fail to see how there are any ethical issues with using an 'embryo' for research purposes.
Seriously. I point my finger squarely at the religious types who claim that this is somehow a sin unto god, wherein these same people, while championing the birth of babies, look the other way while this baby starves in some cesspool.
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So he's the Chuck Norris of futurism?
But we've always been at war with Eurasia. Big Brother said. So there.
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I think the natural caricatured response would be something along the lines of "God put it there to confuse the nonbelievers".
They often are let off the hook - witness every one of those parents who walks away free after 'forgetting' they left their kid strapped in the car on a hundred degree day.
You raise some very valid points here. You say you are certain that this is the future - I am not so sure. It certainly will be the future in forward-thinking jurisdictions, but I am pessimistic about the United States ever allowing any sorts of restrictions though. The conservative religious voting block is simply too large to ignore.
That having been said, however, I personally wouldn't have an issue with embryos being property, should they be developed. There's incredible applications for vat grown homo sapiens - least of which I can think of being transplants, and absolutely incredible insight into how disease develops. The medical and scientific knowledge to be gained from this type of experimentation certainly outweighs the negative implications - we simply need refinement in the law to state what is, and isn't permissible, and have that stand to court challenges.
The truly hard thing about living in a time when humanity is on the cusp of a second renaissance pertaining to knowledge and the ability to push beyond is the holdouts who prevent the progress. Litigate it, I say!
Does anyone here actually remember being an embryo? Does an embryo feel pain? If it cannot remember when developed, nor express that pain before it has, how is this in any way, shape, or form, an ethical issue? We have laboratories and science to expand our knowledge. We can create life in a lab, and use it to expand knowledge. How does this become ethically problematic? If it is not viable to sustain life on its own, without the aid of technology, I fail to see how there are any ethical issues with using an 'embryo' for research purposes. Seriously. I point my finger squarely at the religious types who claim that this is somehow a sin unto god, wherein these same people, while championing the birth of babies, look the other way while this baby starves in some cesspool.