Should we set limits on scientific research

Scientist seek the truth in nature .. Should we set limits on this ..

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For instance the cloning of Humans ...

Sex choice in babies ...

Genetic compatibility...

Reading of human genes for susceptibility for future disesase. 

......having fun in here by yourself Pete?  lol lol  (just teasing ya.....)   What I'm waiting for (and which I probably may not see in my lifetime!)  is ...... when they finally unravel a person's DNA and give them "their" "use by date" for dying!

Naturally this does not/would not include accidents/murders/contracted diseases etc. - just a "normal" life-span DNA .......the article I read was fascinating and people would have to pay "big bucks" initially to find out......and the "survey" that was done by this University in the U.S. - the findings were - most people just didn't want to know?!

I would - would you?    :-)

What is your defination of Nature that scientists are seeking the 'Truth'?

'What is natural?

Genetic compatability, should be left alone, leave to natural selection, otherwise we become robots.

Knowledge of ones susceptibility to future disease could in itself destroy ones life.

Sex choice in babies? why? just to suit ones fancy, It is not knowing until birth, that is exciting.

Cloning of humans, has already happened, as we see by rapists and murderers and other types of fruit cakes.

Robots will take over the world -  trust me!  lol My son is in Japan right now - and one of his "things to do"on his 50 page itinerary -  is to go to the Robot Hotel - where 90% of staff are ROBOTS -  speak bilingual languages and are all ROBOTS!  They check you in at the front desk -  serve you drinks/cocktails - breakfast - cook dinner for you - tell you what tourist sights to see - all at a price!

Time to get with the changing world Seth.......   :-)

these Robots look exactly like people  - scary as!  :-)

These robots love redheads Foxy...they are programmed to make love to them...good place for a holiday??

Roberts will take over the world ?

What about the Susans, Bills, Joes and Gwendas et al.

Ah sorry Foxy, did not have my gogs on, I see you typed Robots not Roberts !

SD

Duh ?

May I suggest you stop trying to belittle me on here Shaggy?  Or - are you just having a weak attempt at humour???

Foxy,

Belittle you ? Never. Why would I ?

A weak attempt at humour as you say.

I had to go get some eye drops today as I am having some eye trouble and my glasses are not of much help.

I just glanced at you post and read Robert and then realised it was Robot so my post was just a follow on. It is just my odd sense of humour. Better behave myself, getting Fleur and Foxy off side is not good.

SD

Count yourself lucky that you're on my bad side...with Foxy you'd have to move to another planet!

Seth Nature is everthing else that is not Faith..,

With all the beauty of nature and myriads of life forms that we can appreciate and enjoy with, or without faith, it is for everyone, what a great creator we have.


I guess one point of difference with those of faith and us faithless ones , is the definition of life .
Whereas those of faith believe in life everlasting , some of us believe that although life may be everlasting somewhere in our vast universe or Multiverses but life on our tiny rock is finite.
In the twenty four hour clock , attached, explanation of life on earth life would have appeared here at 4 o'clock. And humans at 11.58.43 .
As stars do not last forever but eventually run out of fuel one day our sun too will expand into a red giant and engulf the earth .

http://flowingdata.com/2012/10/09/history-of-earth-in-24-hour-clock/

Pete so what you are saying is that there is no meaning to life whatsoever, that life is really futile, and a waste of time, as we are only going to die anyway.

What is the point? We are all born at certain times, but just accept it and celebrate our birthdays. The birth of mankind happened, just celebrate it did.

The big questions 'HOW'and 'WHY" such as what actually is life? we can think, talk and do so much,  if you thought that way....you could say it was miraculous.      

Pete, what do think it means ,  those with faith believe in éverlastinglife'? 

No one living knows the reality of what happens,                                          so everyone has their own faith.

No Seth I do not believe life is meaningless at all.. and I do believe that life is miraculous. 

If intelligent life still exists on earth in billions of years time when the earth is swallowed by the Sun I expect humanity will be long gone to more hospitable places ....

i think by everlasting life those of faith are referring to their souls living in heaven.

When future chroniclers of our particular moral decline designate milestones on our long slide into nihilism, efforts to mitigate the evil of sexual abuse against children must surely rate a dishonourable mention

. A particularly disgraceful example of this genre appeared in the Advertiser from the pen of its political editor Tory Shepherd.

In a meandering piece whose speciousness only surpassed its noxiousness, Shepherd argues that paedophiles are blameless because their brains are (un)naturally hardwired to lust after children.

It’s ‘not their fault’ she declares, citing a University of Toronto study that found child molesters on average have lower than average IQs.

She argues that if paedophiles were only given ‘sympathy’ and ‘respect’ the end result would be ‘fewer children raped.’ In essence, Shepherd wants to wager the lives of our sons and daughters on the hypothetical proposition that a ‘softly softly’ approach to paedophilia will reduce child sexual abuse.

Spectator 

The moral misjudgements that blight Shepherd’s article are one of the uglier by-products of our rights-obsessed culture that has debased personal responsibility.

We hear constant attempts to explain away bad behaviour through appeals to extenuating circumstances supposedly beyond the perpetrator’s control.

One of the most popular tactics to evade individual responsibility is through the pathologising of anti-social activity.

We now live in a society that routinely ascribes disease-like characteristics to deeds that would have simply been described as bad actions by bad actors in previous times.

spectstor

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