At the pace we're going, I hardly believe that the world lasts another 100 years.
Living forever, not really my first choice. Well, I do believe in God, and He is my final and ultimate goal. Life is nothing but a chance to earn my own ticket to Heaven. And when I think that after dying I'll meet God in all His glory, well to me death is not that bad.
I'm not saying that I have death wishes (in fact, if I blow my head off I'll never see God, all I'll ever get will be a fiery ocean of lava), only that, to me, life is just a journey not a destination.
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Which brings me back to my original concern of: at what point does the "soul" get imbued into the developing organism. that has never been defined, and until it is, this is a ground that needs to be avoided due to the bigger picture implications of terminating a Life.
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Perhaps from now on I will be called a "supernaturalist" by some of you, but I think that from the very moment in which those two haploid cells unite, a soul is imbued and a new human being is born. He is brainless, heartless and whatever "less" you want, but he sure is already a human being. Killing him is a murder.
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Of course. What do you think war is?
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Just remember that in war the other soldiers can shoot back (unless you nuke them, of course). And these poor beings, oh pardon me, this "fully functional brain-dead entities", cannot even defend themselves.
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If we are talking about growing clumps of liver, brain or heart cells, why not? If we are talking about full copies of people, why? I think we can grow all the humans we need the old fashioned way.
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I agree completely, because I'm not against progress. If men colonize the galaxy, Excellent! If men cure most of today's deadly diseases using genetic engineering, That's wonderful! But discretion is adviced too.
IMHO we men can do a lot of wonderful (and useful) things, but there is a limit.
The goal can never be justified by the means. If the means are wrong, the goal will be corrupted by them.