Writer's Block: Big Debates
So the question is good, bad, or dangerous? First off, how is it dangerous? Unless we're talking about the emotional/mental damage done to some of the would-be mothers who go in for abortions or the freaks who feel that solving this killing thing is solved with more killing (ie- bombing women's clinics), how is stem cell research dangerous?
I'll leave that question up to you.
But the good or bad portion I can do. I personally believe that it is not only bad, but wrong, in how we're doing it. Did you know that when the umbilical cord is severed, the blood lost from that contains the stems cells that are harvested from (yes, this is how I'm saying it) murdered fetuses? We can also get stem cells from adult fat layers. But they are a little harder to work with. And do you know the leading cause of why research teams don't use these other means?
Money. It is cheaper to vaccuum out an unwanted fetus and butcher it for the stem cells to do this research. It's cheaper and comes with the nifty guise of being a social service.
Now, I'm not going to go into the debate of abortion itself, but I don't ever think that it is right to sacrifice the life of one to further the life of another. It's the idea of Bioshock, would you be willing to murder a helpless little girl to gain something that can potentially save your life? Or would you rather go about getting that same something through a harder means and maybe with a little less result if it means you spare the life of another human being?
The problem with society, and one that is so seeped in capitalism, is the idea of fending for onesself. I am all for people taking initiative and do not for a second think we need a welfare state, but I'm talking about taking care of those who have no voice. Or, in this cut throat world, no power to fight back. Children, animals, hell, even our own enviroment, are being raped for our own perogative.
Stem cell research, as it happens now, is bad. But, I believe that life begins at the moment of conception and I'm sorry, I could never say to myself "This child doesn't even know what life is. I'll just kill it and use it to keep my life going. Shit, the world sucks right now, so I'm actually doing him a favor."
Does anybody else see anything wrong with this?
I'll leave that question up to you.
But the good or bad portion I can do. I personally believe that it is not only bad, but wrong, in how we're doing it. Did you know that when the umbilical cord is severed, the blood lost from that contains the stems cells that are harvested from (yes, this is how I'm saying it) murdered fetuses? We can also get stem cells from adult fat layers. But they are a little harder to work with. And do you know the leading cause of why research teams don't use these other means?
Money. It is cheaper to vaccuum out an unwanted fetus and butcher it for the stem cells to do this research. It's cheaper and comes with the nifty guise of being a social service.
Now, I'm not going to go into the debate of abortion itself, but I don't ever think that it is right to sacrifice the life of one to further the life of another. It's the idea of Bioshock, would you be willing to murder a helpless little girl to gain something that can potentially save your life? Or would you rather go about getting that same something through a harder means and maybe with a little less result if it means you spare the life of another human being?
The problem with society, and one that is so seeped in capitalism, is the idea of fending for onesself. I am all for people taking initiative and do not for a second think we need a welfare state, but I'm talking about taking care of those who have no voice. Or, in this cut throat world, no power to fight back. Children, animals, hell, even our own enviroment, are being raped for our own perogative.
Stem cell research, as it happens now, is bad. But, I believe that life begins at the moment of conception and I'm sorry, I could never say to myself "This child doesn't even know what life is. I'll just kill it and use it to keep my life going. Shit, the world sucks right now, so I'm actually doing him a favor."
Does anybody else see anything wrong with this?