From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Scouted: House Bans Patents on Human Beings Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:31:30 +0000
Travis Edmunds wrote:
>
> You may say that it's not justified. Fine. But what if you or your child or
> some other loved one of yours, contracted a life threatening affliction,
> and the only means of saving yours or the other person's life was to
> harvest a human embryo (which you consider to be "alive"). What do you do?
>
If one of my kids needed some special organ (say, the heart) and it
happened that the only one available (compatibility, etc) was _yours_,
I might try to kill you to harvest that organ.
That doesn't make it right.
Alberto Monteiro
Disclaimer: I didn't render my own opinions in my original post on this subject. That being said however, I think you're missing the point. If you grew up in a society where killing was commonplace, I doubt very much the taking of human life would bother you in the least. Unless in an intellectual way you disliked the fact that a sentient being was forced into non-existence. On the same note though you bring up an interesting point. You're saying that you would cross your own moral, ethical lines in order to save the life of a loved one, all the time understanding that what you're doing is wrong. But of course the concept of wrong comes full circle back to my point.
-Travis
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