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nusances, the infirmities, the suffering, that are so much a part of the 
human experience? Are we so enamored with the idea of physical 
perpetuation at all costs that we are even willing to subject the human 
species to rigid architectural design? Is guaranteeing our health worth 
trading away our humanity? 
What is the price we pay for medical advance, for securing our own physical 
well being? If it means accepting the idea of reducing the human species to 
a technologically designed product, then it is too dear a price. 
Ultimately, there is no security to be found in engineering the human 
species, just as we have now learned that there is no security to be found in 
building bigger, more sophisticated nuclear bombs. 
Perhaps, if we had taken the time to look at the long range implications of 
our work in nuclear physics forty years ago, we might well have decided to 
restrict or prohibit the research and development of nuclear weaponry. 
Today we have the opportunity to look ahead and envision the final logical 
consequences of our work in genetic engineering. The question is whether 
we will choose to do so. 
It is our hope that this resolution will represent a watershed in our thinking 
concerning science and technology. For the first time, it affirms the right 
of h umanity to say no to the application of its own scientific knowledge. 
Just because something can be done is no longer an adequate justification 
for assuming it should be done or that it can't be stopped from being done. 
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