Scientists were reminded of this when a patient they were treating died in 1999. ... When trillions of the viruses were injected into his body, he suffered a violent reaction to them and died. ... Our morality up to now has been to go ahead without restriction to learn all we can about nature." ... Co-discoverer of the DNA code and Nobel Laureate Dr.James D.Watson takes this approach: we must go ahead until we experience serious disadvantages. According to him that is how learning works: until a tiger devours you, you don't know the jungle is dangerous. ...

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The film notes how much we appreciate our sporting heroes, especially Australia, being a very sporty country. ... This reflects upon the positive attitude displayed towards scientific progression, and how cloning can be an advantage to our society. The concept of animal cloning is touched upon when Adam's dog, Oliver dies due to a mysterious virus. ... The film sends the message of how this power can easily fall into the wrong hands, in the film's case, Drucker. ... "I could just go to my lab and we could make the flower in under 5 minutes." ...

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Saving Lives, Changing Genes How far would you go in order to save a loved one from dying from, what is now, a treatable disease? ... In many cases doctors feel that they aren't doing enough for their patients who will eventually die because of an inherited disease. ... Does that mean that we should stop using medicine that science and research has concluded to be effective because wellness shouldn't fall in the hands of scientists? ... If we become a nation of people "dissatisfied by what our youth should naturally look like, than what do we say about ourselves as a whole? Whe...

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How is it currently being used? ... However, when the stem cells are extracted, the organism dies because the stem cells are necessary for continued development. ... When it dies, the embryo is clearly not human, it is merely a collection of very special cells, less complex in architecture than almost any animal on earth. ... Where are we going to get the eggs we would need to treat the millions of patients who would supposedly benefit from therapeutic cloning? The simple answer is, we aren't going to get all of them. ...

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But we do have a choice. If we support the GE, we have no idea how our world would be altered, transgenes could spread everywhere, the crops would be less healthy or even toxic, which would be harmful to our health. ... Do we really want this to happen? ... We can destroy our nature, harm our nature, but at the end it is only we who may not survive. ... We do not want our next generation to suffer from the altered world, we should stop disturbing the nature. ...

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By devouring genetically modified foods we are taking risks because in actuality we do not know what we are eating. ... Next Wilson writes about how if we do not slow the process of genetic engineering down now then humans will become a part of the lab experiment: resulting in vegetable conquering us. ... We unknowingly consume these products every day: not knowing how they truly affect our digestive track. ... The rats developed stomach lesions causing them to die two weeks later: since this test the FlavrSavr tomato has been terminated. ... Like in Food Fight how Wilson wrote that the food...

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Until race and other arbitrary factors, like economics and geography, can be eliminated as a determinant of who lives and who dies, the death penalty needs to be abolished. ... With the death penalty in place through errors in the trial process there is possibilities of mistake, which could result in an innocent person losing the most important thing we have; life. ... These statistics are just one example of how the system of capitol punishment has proven to be unreliable. ... Life is the most precious gift we as humans are given and when someone takes a life, the balance of justice is dis...

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Other ethical principles of concern with genetic engineering include how this scientific field will affect "the distribution of social goods as well as political rights" (David Koepseel). ... Many questions are raised such as "who will have access to these technologies and how scarce resources be allocated?... Our inability to identify the outcome of this science could possibly result as we continue to use this science. ... In addition to food source, Human organs are in dire need and "on average 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant"...

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Some view this possibility with anticipation, some with fear, and others with grief; which leave questions burning in our minds of when, where and how, but perhaps the most pertinent, is this right?! ... The successful cloning of Dolly, the sheep, illuminates that we could potentially clone human beings. ... One theory of cell aging claims that cells follow a stipulated genetic recipe and only divide a certain number of times before dying. ... After a given amount of time, the cell can no longer divide, and ultimately, dies. ... Kass claims that cloning will lead to an eventual deficiency of o...

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Dolly, for example, the world's first cloned sheep, died very young with many health problems typical of only an older sheep. ... In our society we have a basic family structure. ... This is how grandparent, parent, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, and cousin relations are formed. ...

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This type of rationale promotes a very selfish and egocentric attitude towards the world we inhabit. ... If the idea of fitness maximization were in fact correct, then we would find ourselves living in an incredibly self-centred world. ... If the underlying motive that compels individuals to act is fitness maximization, then how does this theory explain altruistic selfless behaviour? ... Applying this theory to the problems concerning natural selection we can see how this helps. The underlying motivation behind not killing a person and dying for the sake of loved ones is in fact fitness maximi...

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In this particular quote, Kameny is defending human cloning by arguing that the government should stay out of personal affairs that include society's choices of how they want to have children. ... When considering personal liberty and personal rights, it is believed that if we as people had complete control and could do whatever we wanted, and then everything would become chaotic. It is the same reason why we have certain laws and regulations in our country, so we can preserve liberty and freedom in a controlled and stable way. ... but 'should we be designers of our children in th...

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Some experts suggest that cloning would be justified to replace a dead child or to help save someone dying of an incurable disease through organ or marrow transplant (Sharp and Sharn). ... Also involved in that case is how the child will be treated. ...

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