So why is stem cell research wrong again? - On the other hand if you think it is 'objectionally good' say that

Question

...And is it the government's place to step in and ban it? I mean, isn't it an attempt toward prolonging our existance here as a species?

Answer 1

It a question that in a single person might have many answers : Medically.... for me it is a option any person living with a long term disease Parkinson's, paralysis, will jump in a minute to be part of if it means I or somebody in my life will live in better quality, with less pain.
On the other hand..if you look at it in a sort of divine way, it like we are playing "God", we can decide how lives or not, we could create "people" let's face it, is just a couple of steps away. I don't really know if the government has a right to step in, I really will really like to believe that our conscience is what gonna in the end determine if we take that step further!

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with stem cell research. The issue is that some people feel that life should not be created just to use as experiments. There are other ways of harvesting stem cells.

I think that some people worry that the value of life will be compromised.

There needs to be boundaries concerning how these cells are acquired. It really isn't that hard to figure out.

Liberals throw it out to show how narrow Republicans are and Republican throw it out to show how the leftest are anti life. I am neither party so I sit back and see their foolish arguments that actually they divert from the real important issues.

You are saying that you think that stem cell research is an attempt to prolong our existence here?? And you say that like it is an evil conspiracy?? I don't think any human has that much power.

Answer 3

The controversy generally is not due to stem cell research itself, but rather embryonic stem cell research. There are small religious sects which forbid medical science altogether, but they are a minority. According to many religions, perhaps most vocally the Catholic Church, at the moment of conception we become a unique, dignified, human. As a human we are entitled to those rights which all humans are bestowed. In embryonic stem cell research, each human embryo, must be harvested of its cells, thus killing it. The moral dilemma comes from the exploitation of one human for the benefit of another. Any medical findings, although fruitful, will be tainted in the evil exploitation of human embryos.

While the intentions behind embryonic stem cell research are good, its means are immoral. The ends never justify the means.

The Catholic Church fully supports adult stem cell research. Stem cells still exist in the human body as an adult, that do not require the harvesting of a human life. However, it is considerably more expensive to extract the stem cells. Nevertheless, this is a very promising field of study.

-Kerplunk288

Answer 4

Some might argue that it violates Kant's categorical imperative which asserted that we should always treat another person as an end, rather than a means. However, some would object to the application of this arguement because they would not ascribe personhood to human life at that early of a stage in its existence. Others recoil in horror at officials in government and in the scientific establishment assuming control and oversight over as delicate an issue as the nature of human life, and whether human life should be treated with the same types of scientific protocols that are applied to plants and animals.

Still others, object on the grounds of conscience, of convictions born of faith in God's purpose for human life, and in reference to the fact that all human beings were at some point, a small clump of cells, and it seems audacious to give government officials and members of the scientific community to power to decide that some human life should be used to achieve the ends of research, however noble the intentions.

Answer 5

When the knowledge is wanted or intended it is given.
Why does how it gets to us matter?
Science is about to undergo a tremendous revolution anyways, so forget about it. DNA mechanics, quantum mechanics, the old school, all of it.