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Originally Posted by Hektore
As with a baby, the value is in the potential to be useful, not it's immediate usefulness.
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This is a great point. The fact that it "can be done" is entirely essential for situations where it "must be done."
However, we must have faith in ourselves with such matters. After all, splitting the atom has led to many
practical and
lifesaving uses. At the same time, it has led to the
wholesale whisking away of life as well.
So in a sense, my own position is not about whether we should do it or not, but more about whether we should know how to do it and what we can learn from it and what it can and should do for us.
Bioethics is something we as a global community should be focusing on, as we are hitting a great stride with regard to technological change.