From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 10:09:44 MDT
Does anyone remember where the following came from? It's
very good, but I neglected to record the author. Thanks, Lee
A permanent, universal prohibition on cloning, in contrast, is the
recourse of a radical, Rousseauean, Jacobin temperament. Such people
never fail to reach for sweeping coercion as the first, rather than
the last resort, and delight in subjecting the whole world to their
view of the right, rejecting the possibility that they might be wrong.
Fortunately, America's Founding Fathers, although they did not
anticipate cloning, (excepting possibly Franklin), did understand
the Burkean virtue of avoiding sweeping governmental edicts, and
permitting a variety of worldviews to find expression in different
laws in different places. This temperament is supremely embodied
in the Constitution, as is the Lockean temperament in the
Declaration of Independence.
<End of excerpt from what source?>
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