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In the next century we’ll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms.
In the next century we’ll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms.
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2013-01-12
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In the next century we’ll be able to alter our DNA radically, encoding our visions and vanities while concocting new life-forms. When Dr. Frankenstein made his monster, he wrestled with the moral issue of whether he should allow it to reproduce, "Had I the right, for my oval benefit, to inflict the curse upon everlasting generations?" Will such questions require us to develop new moral philosophies?
Probably not Instead, we’ll reach again for a time-tested moral concept, one sometimes called the Golden Rule and which Rant, the millennium’s most prudent moralist, conjured up into a categorical imperative: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; treat each person as an individual rather than as a means to some end.
Under this moral precept we should recoil at human cloning, because it inevitably entails using humans as means to other humans’ends and valuing them as copies of others we loved or as collections of body parts, not as individuals in their own right We should also draw a line, however fuzzy, that would permit using genetic engineering to cure diseases and disabilities but not to change the personal attributes that make someone an individual (IQ, physical appearance, gender and sexuality).
The biotech age will also give us more reason to guard our personal privacy. Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, got it wrong: rather than centralizing power in the hands of the state, DNA technology has empowered individuals and famines. But the state will have an important role, making sure that no one, including insurance companies, can look at our genetic data without our permission or use it to discriminate against us.
Then we can get ready for the breakthroughs that could come at the end of the next century and the technology is comparable to mapping our genes: plotting the 10 billion or more neurons of our brain. With that information we might someday be able to create artificial intelligences that think and experience consciousness in ways that are indistinguishable from a human brain. Eventually we might be able to replicate our own minds in a "dry-ware" machine, so that we could live on without the "wet-ware" of a biological brain and body. The 20th century’s revolution in infotechnology will thereby merge with the 21st century’s revolution in biotechnology. But this is science fiction. Let’s turn the page now and get back to real science.
From the text, we learn that Aldous Huxley is of the opinion that______
选项
A、DNA technology should be placed, in the charge of individuals.
B、government should assume less control over individuals.
C、people need government to protect their DNA information
D、old moral precepts should be abolished on human cloning.
答案
A
解析
题干问:“我们从本文得知,奥尔德斯·贺胥黎持有怎样的观点?”此题可定位在第4自然段,正确选项为A“DNA技术应该受到个人的控制”,作者在文中对奥尔德斯·贺胥黎的观点提出了一种批判。而选项B“政府应该对个人少加以控制”,选项C“人们需要政府来保护DNA信息”和原文的意思是相反的。选项D“关于人类克隆的道德观念应该被删除”与问题不符合。
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