From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 14:24:48 MDT
George Annas, chair of the Health Law Dept. at BU's School
of Public Health has come out in favor of an "international
treaty prohibiting cloning and inheritable alterations"
Article:
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=5396028&BRD=1714&PAG=461&dept_id=73829&rfi=8
On the issue of extending longevity, he says:
"At some point, we'd have to start killing people off, ... We'd have to
devise a self-destruct mechanism."
Interestingly enough, if the proposed treaty bans exactly
what the title indicates it doesn't throw that much of
a monkey wrench into the transhumanist agenda. He makes
the mistake that Greg Stock does of assuming that technologies
to modify our own genome/proteome are relatively "impossible"
and that so long as one preserves future "natural" generations
one has effectively put the genie back into the bottle.
Robert
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