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Sam Harris on Stem Cell Controversy

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Sam Harris on Stem Cell

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  • this seems like an unusual copy of a video. Did you notice at the end before the ads showed up, there was a bunch of ads that showed up!

  • Again, that 0.1 mm cells is not killed in hESC research. It's used to start a "stem cell line"( a misnomer ) by keeping it alive unnaturally. This tiny group of cells becomes exponentially larger and more mature. There's about 7 lbs worth of cells after 9 months, only strewn about thousands of dishes. They don't remain stem cells. They become infant cells and are reduced to a commodity by a corporation.

    This is the UNNATURAL life of a human that I oppose.

  • Every time a woman menstruates a potential human life is wasted. Would you argue that women have to deliver all the children they possibly can? No, of course not.

    Our values are totally twisted..

    There are thousands of people getting killed every day by traffic, war, hunger, disease etc. These are REAL, ACTUAL, GROWN HUMAN LIVES and yet people are more concerned with the POTENTIAL lives of 0,1 millimetres of cells.

    We have the potential to create thousands of babies, would you argue for that?

  • A quick Google search would've told him not all those opposed to ESC research on ethical grounds is religious, and not all atheists are utilitarians.

  • False! Please google "life cycle of a human being". I'm an MD strongly opposed to the systematic manufacture and destruction of human beings. The human embryo is already an individual human being. It's only 150 cells at a moment in its existence. 300, 600, 1200, 2400cells, exponentially growing and differentiating continuously. Do not allow corporations to own, destroy, sell humans at any phase of their life cycle.

  • True!

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