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1 enormous potential for death and destruction, especially 
2 biological warfare, implicit in the work. 
3 We are convinced that ultimate value lies in 
4 life itself. All of it is good, not simply life that is 
5 human; and we are not advancing if we increase the quality 
6 of human life and further threaten life itself. Deeper 
7 perhaps than that, as we move closer to genetic engineering, 
0 we are convinced there is something irreparably human about 
g human genetic mistakes. Already, if diabetics have reason 
10 for hope, dwarfs beware. 
11 m closing, I agree with Gordon Cosby that it 
12 isn't our MAD — mutual assured destruction -- nuclear 
13 policy that has kept humankind from nuclear annihilation. 
14 Ultimately, we are still here by the grace of a compassionate 
15 God and the work of some serious peacemakers. 
16 As we enter the genetic age, one could hope 
17 that decision-makers would worry about human security from 
16 the effects of individual and corporate greed, individual 
1 9 and corporate ignorance, individual and corporate power, 
2Q and individual and corporate pride; as they worry about 
21 bricks and mortar, air vents and air flows, biological and 
22 physical containment. And that barring omnicide, my children 
23 would not be faced with genecide. 
24 MR. LIBASSI: Thank you. 
25 The next speaker is Mr. Daniel Liberman. 
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