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Re: The "Pro-Debate" camp
SC ( 10/24/2003, 04:17:13 )My message was in reply to Erin, not to Bionic Virus, and I did give decent arguments to Bionic Virus. The most numerically effective ban would require that governments worldwide become more totalitarian. The essence of totalitarianism is that a handful of people in charge get special perks while they deny basic freedoms to everyone else. This is generally associated with genocide, since totalitarian governments usually have to kill a few million of their own people to keep the rest in line.When this sort of thing happens, people see it going on, get upset about it, and take action to see that it doesn't happen again. However, the attempt to suppress people's freedoms that we're seeing now is much more sneaky, and potentially more devastating. It's not as blatant as traditional genocide (at least not yet), but that's why I'm using high-impact words to call attention to it. I had more written on the above post, in which I devoted more time to trying to find the right language, but I didn't post all of it, because I didn't think all of it made sense as a reply to Erin. Choosing and banning are exact opposites. People who are contemplating having children have some choice over what happens to them. They can die without a limited form of life extension or they can choose to pass on parts of their lives to someone else. With murder, one person denies another his right to live and his right to choose how he will live. A ban on cloning would deny people those rights on a vast scale.However, we are talking about a more severe denial than what we traditionally think of. Our freedom to choose to live is somewhat limited; eventually we'll die. The more years we can potentially live, the greater the denial of freedom will be, and the more severe the crime will be. At first, a ban on cloning or other potentially life-saving technologies won't shorten anybody's life, but as the technology develops (most likely in secret, under the supervision of the totalitarians who banned it in the first place), the difference between the length and quality of life people have and what they could have had if the technology were available will become wider and wider. It's like the difference between stomping on one frog in full view of all the other frogs, and slowly boiling them by putting them all in a pot where the water temperature increases too slowly for them to realize what's going on.
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