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[from where did 'mankind' get right to claim phenotypic immortality
for itself]
CB: Genetic engineering is a human practice. Humans have always regulated their own
practices in the form of custom ( culture).
* IMPORTANT CONFERENCE *
BEYOND
Yesterday, In response to Jim Devine's query on my post on cloning I
posted an Op-Ed piece by Lee Silver, who teaches at Princeton. In that
piece he asserts the following claim, which is *utterly staggering* in
it's implications for those in the right-to life movement--I'm
defender of choice mysel
> Ian asks:
> >[from where did 'mankind' get (the) right to claim phenotypic
immortality
> >for itself]
>
> since it's only humanity that can define "rights" -- because there's
no
> such thing as "natural rights," since Nature can't determine
"rights" --
> humanity can claim any right it damn w
Ian asks:
>[from where did 'mankind' get (the) right to claim phenotypic immortality
>for itself]
since it's only humanity that can define "rights" -- because there's no
such thing as "natural rights," since Nature can't determine "rights" --
humanity can claim any right it damn well pleases. B
