Thread: This can't possibly end well..

More crazy shat! I gotta agree with you here ... this is way overboard. I'm sure there are an unlimited number of ways this can be used and abused.

Boy, you righties sure have that whole "slippery slope" thing down good.

Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

Boy, you righties sure have that whole "slippery slope" thing down good.

lol, that is a first being called a righty. I'd say my stand is more about a lack of trust in government / man to not abuse such knowledge.

I wonder if we'll eventually have things like the movie The Island or Never Let Me Go.

Yeh, yeh, right...in vitro fertilisation was called 'against nature' in the 50s and Rick Santorum still believes we should outlaw sonograms....also, man was not made to fly, people can't breathe at the breakneck speed of 30 mph and doctors who try to aid amputations with these newfangled anesthetics should be burned as witches, the Bible says life is painful, who are we to thwart God's Will?

Also, doesn't Godwin's Law apply to mention of Mengele too?

Tell ya what, next time you get sick go let out about a couple pints of blood to drain the bad humers. If you don't feel better, bleed away two more and call me in the morning :rolleyes:

Re-Pet is coming! hehehehe.

Originally Posted by michael h

lol, that is a first being called a righty. I'd say my stand is more about a lack of trust in government / man to not abuse such knowledge.

Funny how a good understanding of human nature gets you labeled a "rightie" isn't it ?


Maybe not so funny .... this entire discussion ( like so many in the arena of politics ) has to do with whether we understand or DON'T understand ourselves.


... and whether or not we want to be honest about it.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Funny how a good understanding of human nature gets you labeled a "rightie" isn't it ?


Maybe not so funny .... this entire discussion ( like so many in the arena of politics ) has to do with whether we understand or DON'T understand ourselves.


... and whether or not we want to be honest about it.

The abuses of our government and doctors are numerous ... in relation to experimenting on our own citizens without their knowledge. Spraying American cities with hazardous gasses many times, the old Tuskegee experiments, fed radioactive calcium to mentally disabled kids, Dr Leo Stanley at San Quentin ... animal implants into human prisoners, unconsented spinal taps on children, intentional cholera and bubonic plague infections, intentionally infecting children with TB, intentionally infecting children and adults with syphilis, intentionally infecting mental patients with the flu (Jonas Salk), infecting a baby with herpes, intentional infections of malaria on mental patients, 200 female prisoners infected with viral hepatitis intentionally along with another case of infecting mentally disabled children,

This is an endless list in the study of true human nature as opposed to the studies conducted ... now with an endless supply of babies ... think of the fun these doctors and government can have.


A link to more abuses for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_m..._United_States

With advanced capabilities comes the responsibility of advanced wisdom as to how to best used them.

I'm not certain that we as humans have developed the advanced wisdom to match our scientific capabilities, but that's always the way with us humans, or so it seems, that we develop the capability first, and only after we develop the capability the wisdom to use it wisely. I can only hope that the same will apply here, i.e. that we will develop the required wisdom in time.

Originally Posted by eohrnberger

With advanced capabilities comes the responsibility of advanced wisdom as to how to best used them.

I'm not certain that we as humans have developed the advanced wisdom to match our scientific capabilities, but that's always the way with us humans, or so it seems, that we develop the capability first, and only after we develop the capability the wisdom to use it wisely. I can only hope that the same will apply here, i.e. that we will develop the required wisdom in time.

That is wishful thinking, all you have to do is look around the world and then tell me "humans and wisdom" go together.

Originally Posted by Captain Trips

Funny how a good understanding of human nature gets you labeled a "rightie" isn't it ?


Maybe not so funny .... this entire discussion ( like so many in the arena of politics ) has to do with whether we understand or DON'T understand ourselves.


... and whether or not we want to be honest about it.

Rightists aren't just "honest" about their assertion that man is evil, they downright glory in it. For every Saddam Hussein there is an Albert Schweitzer. The fact is that humanity is still here after several million years is proof enough to me that mankind is not self-destructive by nature.

Stem cell research of this sort holds the key to immortality. If you truly want to die someday that is YOUR choice, but don't try to force it on me if it can be avoided

Originally Posted by lutherf

Nature works the way it does for some really good reasons and this.....this is more than a little tweak to the system.

Next time you get sick or suffer serious injuries, only use treatments available a few thousand years ago. We don't want to tweak nature now do we?

You notice that the dicks have a propensity for praying upon the defenseless? Nothing like mentally disabled children, the mentally ill, and prisoners to perform experiments on (a common thread amongst experimenters). This is the nature of mankind and government performing horrendous acts for "our" interests ... not because some fuckwad has visions of living forever. Just because we have a few saint like people floating around ... doesn't mean shit can't or won't be abused. As to eventual death ... shit happens and we all get a turn at life ... but I wouldn't have mine extended by infecting innocent people with disease ... destroying their lives or even killing them.