Leon Kass Quotes - Page 2

But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.