Cloning and Politics

[Brian Atkins]

Russell Turpin wrote:
> 
> There are several ironies here. The first is that
> neither of the parties in our two-party system has room
> to voice the pro-technology position. Both are too tied
> to religious interests, and the Republican Party
> especially kowtows to the fundamentalists.
> 
> This leads to a second irony. The Republican Party is
> -- at least in word -- the party of economic progress.
> Economic progress is a story of technology waves. And
> they want to outlaw one of the critical waves on the
> horizon.
> 

The worst irony is that our country is right now fighting a war that
is caused by religious fundamentalism, and the most vocal opponents
of this religious fundamentalism are the... you guessed it: republicans.
Then they turn around and apparently don't realize how utterly
Taliban-like these proposed scientific criminalization rules are.
Are we living in the 21st century or the time of Galileo?

P.S. Bans on scientific development like these will put far more blood
on the hands of Bush and others who support these laws than the Taliban
and Bin Laden could ever hope to amass. We're talking about the deaths
of millions of people that might have been prevented. I frankly don't
see how he can sleep at night.
-- 
Brian Atkins
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
http://www.singinst.org/