All Leon Kass Quotes
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
Leon Kass
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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
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We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
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The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
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It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.
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The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
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There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
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My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
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Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
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We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
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Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
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Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
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