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Lost, too would be the opportunity to see ourselves as already perpetrating upon our fellow man exactly the things that we fear will be brought on by a new technology. We didn’t need the new technology to create the horrors we fear; they are already here. Only through this open and heated discussion can we look past the symptoms of our fear to the underlying corruption in our attitudes toward our fellow man. As put by Peter Harris, “I oppose the ban because of my deep interest in fostering such a public discussion. A legal ban brings closure to a public debate rather than stimulating it.”(Harris, 47).
As for whether or not we should engage in genetic research and human cloning, I leave you with a brief quote from Harris:
“Unlike Prometheus,
no modern scientist has stolen anything out of heaven.
Rather, the capacity for knowledge has been given to humanity
by the omniscient and omnipotent creator of us all,
the one whose authority and being are not usurped
even by the capacity of the creature to clone itself.”
(Harris, 48)
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