We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. — Leon Richard Kass
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. — Leon Richard Kass
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. — Leon Richard Kass
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Richard Kass
I don’t believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. — Leon Richard Kass
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. — Leon Richard Kass
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. — Leon Richard Kass
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Richard Kass
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual – the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. — Leon Richard Kass
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. — Leon Richard Kass
It’s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. — Leon Richard Kass
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the… cleverness that we have to make changes. — Leon Richard Kass
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. — Leon Richard Kass
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Richard Kass
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. — Leon Richard Kass
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. — Leon Richard Kass
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy — Leon Richard Kass
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. — Leon Richard Kass
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. — Leon Richard Kass
The neuroscience area – which is absolutely in its infancy – is much more important than genetics. — Leon Richard Kass
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. — Leon Richard Kass
