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Yeah America has all the moral debates about genetics and experiments with embryos. But the bottom line is other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.
While I disagree with the US's stance, ignoring your morals because other countries are doing something would be a race to the bottom.
(Philosophical question I suppose)
Yeah America has all the moral debates about genetics and experiments with embryos. But the bottom line is other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.
note that many parts of the US enthusiastically adopted stem cell technology (https://www.cirm.ca.gov/about-cirm/history) but unfortunately federal-level policies set by conservative leaders have ameliorated the ambitious plans of that project.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
While I disagree with the US's stance, ignoring your morals because other countries are doing something would be a race to the bottom.
What if those morals are evil? (Philosophical question I suppose)
I worry about allowing Japan, a country that has refused to fully own up to the biomedical atrocities it committed with Unit 731, to lead the way on these kinds of experiments. I would feel much more comfortable if there was international ethical oversight.
1945 was a long time ago and a very different Japan... We don't still force Germany to have caps on its army.
Japan is currently sanctioning Samsung because it wants to avoid responsibility for WW2 sexual slavery.
I worry about allowing Japan, a country that has refused to fully own up to the biomedical atrocities it committed with Unit 731, to lead the way on these kinds of experiments. I would feel much more comfortable if there was international ethical oversight.
1945 was a long time ago and a very different Japan... We don't still force Germany to have caps on its army.
You pacified the German psyche so thoroughly that the Germans do it themselves now.
grow human organs inside rats and? how does that work? i don't understand. meanwhile we are entering the sixt mass extinction event caused by a massive climate change. what good is this technology when you have failing crops, extreme weather, no electricity and mass immigration at your doorstep?
For human organs the most likely host species is pig. Pigs are big enough and apparently quite similar to us. And also the slaughter of hundreds of millions of them every year is already well accepted...
:/
Yeah America has all the moral debates about genetics and experiments with embryos. But the bottom line is other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.
According to the article, these experiments have already been done in the US before.
Yeah America has all the moral debates about genetics and experiments with embryos. But the bottom line is other countries are going to move forward no matter what America does.
While I disagree with the US's stance, ignoring your morals because other countries are doing something would be a race to the bottom.
If those morals say people should die instead of getting the organ transplants they need, maybe we are better off ignoring such morals.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For human organs the most likely host species is pig. Pigs are big enough and apparently quite similar to us. And also the slaughter of hundreds of millions of them every year is already well accepted...
...and for something far less exalted than curing people of diabetes. :/