To weigh these issues, regulators should be informed by first-rate science, but also by first-rate humanism. After all, Homer addressed similar issues three millenniums ago.
In "The Odyssey,"Â the beautiful nymph Calypso offers immortality to Odysseus if he will stay on her island. After a fling with her, Odysseus ultimately rejects the offer because he misses his wife, Penelope. He turns down godlike immortality to embrace suffering and death that are essential to the human condition.
Likewise, when the President's Council on Bioethics issued its report in 2002, "Human Cloning and Human Dignity,"Â it cited scientific journals but also Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea."Â Even science depends upon the humanities to shape judgments about ethics, limits and values.
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