re: "Playing God" D&D

Quoting Freckles Ford:" Because you don't want someone to die? o_O Clearly... "

obviously....but you're still messing with nature by doing so...
If science weren't around wed still be dying at the rip old age of 40...

Quoting Aribean:" obviously....but you're still messing with nature by doing so... If science weren't around wed still be dying at the rip old age of 40..."

You assume I'm anti science? I'm not... like, at all.

Quoting Freckles Ford:" You assume I'm anti science? I'm not... like, at all. "

you assumed that i assumed that...

Quoting Aribean:" you assumed that i assumed that..."

Lol well you said "if science wasn't around" implying I'm anti-science.

I don't want to go back and forth with you if you have nothing else to offer...

Quoting Freckles Ford:" Lol well you said "if science wasn't around" implying I'm anti-science. I don't want to go back and forth with you if you have nothing else to offer... "

its my opinion on the topic at hand not an argument and your assuming that when it was just a general statement.

I don't believe the gods have much of a hand in our genetic make up, so really, playing god is not playing god.


If that makes any sense outside my sleep deprived brain.

Quoting Kawaiisaurus:" I don't believe the gods have much of a hand in our genetic make up, so really, playing god is not playing god. If that makes any sense outside my sleep deprived brain."

When I said it, I didn't literally mean playing God, lol.

I don't even think there is a God, and I certainly don't think he "makes" us. I just meant that this is screwing too much with the course of nature.

Maybe I should have said it's too much like playing Mother Nature?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Cass[Mama2JandO]:</b>" When I said it, I didn't literally mean playing God, lol. I don't even think there is a God, and I ... [snip!] ... that this is screwing too much with the course of nature. Maybe I should have said it's too much like playing Mother Nature?"</blockquote>




I don't think Gaia has any say in how humans are designed either.

Quoting Kawaiisaurus:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Cass[Mama2JandO]:</b>" When I said it, I didn't literally mean ... [snip!] ... too much like playing Mother Nature?"</blockquote> I don't think Gaia has any say in how humans are designed either."

Oy. People take things too literal.

Quoting Freckles Ford:" Because you don't want someone to die? o_O Clearly... "

Yes, but that's a selfish desire, not an altruistic one.

Another of the arguments against GM is how selfish it is... let's be honest, for every altruistic person out there, there are 100 motivated first and foremost by selfish motivations.

Look at any charity for any disease in existence. 99.9% people involved in the charity became involved when someone they knew, themselves or someone else, got the illness. They obviously don't want anyone else to get it either and want to help everyone who has it, but primarily they want to cure or heal the person they know. The primary motivation is a selfish one, even if much good comes of it. So selfishness isn't always bad, because it can drive us to actions that end up helping others as we help ourselves, too. You don't tend to see people deciding to champion the cause of an illness that has no benefit for them at all, no one they know might end up benefiting from the treatment, etc.

C.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Cass[Mama2JandO]:</b>" Oy. People take things too literal. "</blockquote>




...it is literal to me.

Quoting God:" Spin off from the genetically modified human debate... If GM is "wrong" because it's "playing God" then ... [snip!] ... getting an organ transplant... all just as much "playing God". Nature told you to die, and you told nature "smurf you". C."

I would do it to survive. You don't need to use GM to survive.
But I do wish we would go back to a day when the weak died. That is what is wrong with the human race, the weak and dumb make babies because they are able to survive from the smart and strong around them. I mainly wish we would let the dumb die out. It seems that people just keep getting more dumb though.

I say science is always pushing the limits...and thank God for that!

No one says you have to do, so really, who cares who else is doing it  

Also a lot of medical achievements are grown in labs ... A lot of modern heart valves for replacement are grown in labs. Vaccines and antibiotics are developed using genetically mutated and modified bacteria. Stem cell research when it finally happens will be based on genetic modification, but does that mean that if you get MS or Parkinson's you wouldn't accept the treatment?

Quoting Kawaiisaurus:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Cass[Mama2JandO]:</b>" Oy. People take things too literal. "</blockquote> ...it is literal to me."

Well to me, it's a figure of speech.