> Subj: Re: good recovery from ATM/Cloning-Right or Wrong?
> Date: 97-03-20 20:00:16 EST
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> Jim wrote.
>
> >Just because someone disagrees, misunderstands, or has a problem with a
> concept doesn't indicate a "small mind."<
>
> Fair enough Jim, perhaps that was too strongly worded. Although I think
> alot
> of people might share my frustration....is it necessarily right to force
> people to wait until a concept is considered "right" or "mainstream" for
> research to continue? I think alot of people who have benefited from open
> heart surgery or transplants would agree. They faced similiar
disagreements,
> misunderstandings and problems in their patient wait for the fruits of
> pioneering research.
>
>
> Gary K.
>
Gary,
Actually, that was Barbara rather than Jim. Hope I didn't sound petty or
offended. I've been mulling this over and trying to find more information on
how cloning is done and projected (realistic) uses in order to develop an
informed opinion, but haven't had much success yet in finding info. To me,
rightness or wrongness has everything to do with it. There are some medical
procedures I would never undergo for moral reasons -- but we don't want to
get into more controversy, so I won't go into that just now. :-) But it is
hard to determine in situations like this. Yet, as a Christian, believing
that "every one of us shall give account of himself to God," I can't say the
rightness or morality of it doesn't matter. So I'm still thinking.
One other aspect of this is that some of us, when presented with a new idea,
are gung-ho, all for it, "When can we do it?!!" Others, like me, have to
think it through and look at all the angles (I'm the type of person who
thinks of a right response three days after the initial conversation...)
Neither type of personality is wrong or better --both types probably help
balance out the other. Two of my sons are exact opposites in this regard --
makes life interesting!! Yet I do understand that in this situation,
conclusions need to be arrived at sooner rather than later. As you said in an
earlier post, someone probably will be working on this whether overtly or
covertly.
Barbara