View Poll Results: Stem cell research

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  • Fantastic idea! I want to live forever.

    19 29.23%

  • Promising field of research, awaiting more info.

    40 61.54%

  • It's a modest proposal

    2 3.08%

  • Bad idea.

    4 6.15%
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  1. 01-15-2010, 10:41 PM #41
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oglethorpe View Post
    Right, but not a twisted hidden agenda.

    Of course not!


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  2. 01-15-2010, 11:22 PM #42
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    With the earth's population on an asymptotic climb I think it is a delightfully wonderful goal to have all cured of everything disease so we can all breed with marvelous fruitfulness and live forever doing so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    How about this:

    You want to get stem cell therapy.


    You do the oofa-ooffa dance with your wife, if you catch my drift, and 4 weeks later remove the "cell tissue" that will be used to treat you. It will be as close a genetic match as you can get, customized especially for you.

    Any moral implications to that?
    a bit off topic, but just to ask, do you think that birth control is wrong?
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  4. 01-15-2010, 11:27 PM #44
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
    With the earth's population on an asymptotic climb I think it is a delightfully wonderful goal to have all cured of everything disease so we can all breed with marvelous fruitfulness and live forever doing so.

    Well.. this is the only real rational con to stem cell research I've heard and agree with. If we fix everybody up so they live for a really long time, we're eventually going to run out of room/resources.

    I don't have a solution to that one .

    It's still going to always come down to who's got the money and who can afford the treatment, and so the rich will keep on keeping on and the poor will continue to be stuck.

    Good point, Bruce.
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  5. 01-15-2010, 11:55 PM #45
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    It was not the religious belief system that created that backlog of embryonic stem cells in the first place, though was it?

    That would be the reponsibility of the $cientific community.
    What are you referring too?
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  6. 01-16-2010, 01:36 AM #46
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    Anesthesia, pain medication, sulfur drugs, penicillin and other anti biotic medications, the polio vaccine are all scientific breakthroughs that led to saving lives and/or making life better for millions of people. Stem cells have the same potential. IMHO.
    +1. And being more compatible than the above chemicals will likely have less side effects too.
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  7. 01-19-2010, 02:26 PM #47
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    a bit off topic, but just to ask, do you think that birth control is wrong?

    Personally, no, I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with birth control.
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  8. 01-19-2010, 02:32 PM #48
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    Ok, you've heard everybody else's point....


    Now what's your stance?


    You know who I'm talking to... you... you... you... panty dropper.
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  9. 01-19-2010, 02:38 PM #49
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oglethorpe View Post
    Ok, you've heard everybody else's point....


    Now what's your stance?


    You know who I'm talking to... you... you... you... panty dropper.

    Have you sobered up yet?
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  10. 01-19-2010, 02:50 PM #50
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphim View Post
    Have you sobered up yet?
    I'm at work man! What kind of guy do you think I am?
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