Carlos (one of my best friends) and I went to get dinner to a Vietnamese restaurant yesterday and like always we start to talk about different matters, from my obsession of buying books to stem cell news.
Every time I walk in a books store I have to buy one or more books, it’s funny but I think I have more books then clothes. I don’t think is anything bad with it, but has been a little problematic sometimes, because some of those babies are really expensive. Yesterday morning I got three, The Stem Cell Dilemma, Milan Kundera the curtain (an essay in seven parts), and the myth of Alzheimer’s.
The preface and introduction of the Stem Cell Dilemma states the debate for which the subject is going through at the present. I just had little information about it, but after I read those parts I understood a lot more, and have a different perception about the research. Two of the barriers that the stem cell research is facing against are the religion and ethics. Carlos is pretty open mind, Even though he is a strong Catholic. The discussion was about our points of view from the religious perspective, mine as liberal protestant and his as Jesuit. We agreed the bible says that a human being starts since the conception and should its life should be conserved, and also that science is working in pro of our life. In the book I found some questions that made us think if our beliefs were valid. When a group of cells became a human being? What makes an embryo a being? Is a person with cerebral death considerate alive? Then we just disserted with ourselves about what would be more important, our belief or the fact that science is working in pro of human life.
I always have been open to new things and I have tried to avoid judgment without research and study first, mostly when I am analyzing my self.
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