Re: good recovery from ATM/Cloning-Right or Wrong?
Bryan Kessler (bkessler(AT)hookup.net)
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:11:54 -0500
>In a message dated 97-03-20 20:00:16 EST, you write:
>
>> 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
>
>
Hard to resist a reply to this "controversy". As I said very much
earlier, if continuing research into cloning can get my spinal cord neurons
re-myelinated, I don't give a rat's patooie what someone thinks is right or
wrong --especially someone who has NO professional kowledge about the
procedures. IF God is watching, or cares, I wonder why he would have given
human's the power to do these things -- so much of which are for the good.
(yes, yes, we know the arguement about being faced with good and evil and
making the right choice --but I don't REALLY think this applies to
developing a few primary glial cells or oligodendrytes to re-generate a
damaged nervous system. And just to remind the doubeters, the concept of
cloning for organ harvesting is SO distasteful (and impractical, that it's
not likely to be a problem for a LONG time --certainly far after we have
developed cures for MS, TM and a lot of other horrible neurological
diseases. One of the greatest impediments to science in history has been
the good old RC church (and yes I AM one -- I believe by today's standards
that gives me the right to criticize). Let's hope people can separate the
two -- why even the Pope has had to admit that evolution is probably true
--will wonders never cease --maybe next he'll admit women are equal to
men!!!!!!!!