-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Sujeet Bhatt
Bioethical Angst, if I may call it that, is considerably muted in India by the standards you must be used to. Non-Semitic cultures tend to be pragmatic about these things. I am not familiar with any bioethicists here, but I'm sure that's just my ignorance.
Sujeet
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Gee, maybe our Xtian missionaries will bring you some of that angst, as the US clearly has comparative advantage in producing the stuff. :-) Many green-lefties harbor such angst even as they claim to revel in a biophilia that undoes a lot of the moralisms of 'traditional' theistic worldview[s]. So, while the attorney general for the state of Kansas goes on a fishing expedition over womens medical records regarding their sexual past and our sycophantic media claim that the McCaughey septuplets are a miracle [modern medicine meets corporate sponsored child rearing, hello!] http://www.cnn.com/US/9811/18/septuplets.01/ , practically no one is paying attention to Hans Moravec and other researchers attempts to build living systems from 'mere' matter. It remains to be seen whether the current angst and authoritarianism surrounding biotechnology and nanotechnology will retrospectively be looked upon as every bit as silly as the condemnatory descrying of the use of anesthesia for child 'delivery'.
Ian