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killing large prey was never within our power before, but we do it now (advent of tools, weapons). Creating a nuclear weapon was never within our grasp, but we have tens of thousands of them. Creating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich didn't used to be within our grasp, but we do that all the time. Just because we couldn't do something before is no rationale at all for not doing something. We can create life now, ok, nothing wrong with it just for the simple fact that we couldn't do it before. Let's try it.
I don't agree with you at all on your life/death point. I understand death perfectly, the absence of life, the termination of living, when our cells are no longer operating in a system that makes us conscious. I understand life perfectly as well, the time between birth and death, not inatimate, anything that functions within an environment or reacts, living. You treat life/death so divinely, and there really isn't anything more than just living and dying. You live, and die, nothing happens after. Even if there is more, there's no way we can ever know. Continually questioning it won't give us progress, it will make us more regressive if we never accept any tenets to be true. It's bootless.
There really isn't anything else to understand. We understand it, we can use it. By your logic, we should just drop all science together. Screw all the doctors, we are all infants in our understanding as you were saying (nukes to a 3 year old), so how can we possibly use it? So we should stop using the life that doctors constantly give out to dying patients just because we don't understand it fully? We use things we don't know all the time (which is not this case, we understand life and death more than a lot of things), and this is far from that. Even so, your rationale creates a world where we halt in a limbo, doing nothing just because we don't understand everything. Let's all go back to being hunter-gatherers. We don't understand society, we don't understand other people, we don't understand human nature, let's all just not use it at all.
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Last edited by PsychoSnowman on 11-08-2002 at 02:51 AM
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10-13-2002 03:22 AM
agree
