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silversoul7
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Stem Cell Research
#3289985 - 10/28/04 03:29 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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As those of you living in California may know, there's a ballot measure this year that would give funding to stem cell research. I'm sure you all know my position on this, but I thought I'd share a different perspective. I was recently talking to my grandfather, who is a Green Party member, and he said that he also plans on voting against this measure. He said that considering how bad health care is for the poor, he doesn't see the wisdom in funding research that will lead to procedures which will only benefit the wealthy. Just something for the leftists here to consider.
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why should my tax money pay for it?
lift the bans and allow private enterprise undertake the endeavor.
it's ri-goddamn-diculous
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: afoaf]
#3290046 - 10/28/04 03:39 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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afoaf said: why should my tax money pay for it?
lift the bans and allow private enterprise undertake the endeavor.
it's ri-goddamn-diculous
No tax monies should be used for any medical research or healthcare.
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I agree with you for once. There's enough foundations out there to do the research and more important things for tax money to go to.
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: afoaf]
#3290832 - 10/28/04 06:19 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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afoaf said: why should my tax money pay for it?
lift the bans and allow private enterprise undertake the endeavor.
it's ri-goddamn-diculous
There are not now, nor have there ever been bans on stem cell research, embryonic or adult. There is a ban on federal money being spent on research outside of the embryonic stem cell lines which were already extant, I'm going to guess, three years ago. What the administration objects to is the deliberate creation of a zygote or blastula for the sole purpose of research. A very large percentage of the population (not me) considers a zygote a human. This is not a restriction. Zero federal money should be spent on this. If private industry sees that there is a potential that out weighs the effort and risk of failure, then it will pursue these avenues. We don't need emotional, ignorant nitwits directing where research resources should be directed. John Edwards, "If we are elected people like Christopher Reeve will walk again." What a dick. And this from someone who sues with bad science and tries to get the dumbest jury ppossible.
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: zappaisgod]
#3290848 - 10/28/04 06:23 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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The government shouldn't fund stem cell research but they shouldn't limit it either.
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They don't. Did you read what I wrote?
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: zappaisgod]
#3290911 - 10/28/04 06:38 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yes, I was merely making a point against the current Republican stance on stem cell research.
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I think stem cell research is needed...I donated my sons placenta when he was born to help stem cell research ..and i am far from being a left wing thinker..if it was your family-Friend or even if it is a stranger that touched your life for a second fighting for his/her life from a horrible sickness...anything i can do or even are government can do to help is a great thing...i think heath care should be free...i pay taxes just like everyone else and i want to do my part to help even if it is tuff for us sometimes...
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: starptv23]
#3291685 - 10/28/04 10:06 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Government paid health care IS NOT free.
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I agree, SS7. There's enough private interest in stem cells to keep the research going without federal funding.
However, there are many avenues of science that private industries have no interest in. There are also avenues of science where industry only funds research to deliberately manipulate the data and radically fuck up our uderstanding of the natural world.
As someone who is personally involved with such a field, I can assure you that government grants can be a godsend to the advancement of science.
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: Evolving]
#3291784 - 10/28/04 10:28 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Government paid health care IS NOT free.
Yeah, neither is health care that is paid for by your job and left to companies that exist for their own profit margins. It is a good point your grandfather brings up but I feel that voting for or agaisnt this measure has little to do with the amount of health care that the poor get. That is a completely different monster and the two are not related (as far as funding goes).
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Why is your grandfather assuming stem cell therapy will only be available for the wealthy? There are so many people who would benefit from stem cell therapy, that I'm confident the treatment's demand would spawn ideas to make it affordable. I think the collaboration efforts of government and private funding will bring harnessing the novelty of stem cells faster. Now refer to sig
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: Viaggio]
#3291861 - 10/28/04 10:50 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Do you really think that the treatments that come from stem cell research will not cost an arm and a leg? Do you honestly believe that people on MedicAid will be able to afford such treatments? His position, though I disagree with it, is that we need that money to provide free health care for the poor, not to do this kind of research.
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the money going to stem cell research isn't coming out of the "poor people's medical fund", is it?I wouldnt be surprised if Bsuh put that money into the fight against abortions so there aren't as much stem cells to work with. This reminds me of the poor people in Vancouver who were against having the Olympics because they wanted cheaper housing.
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First of all, this is a state measure, so Bush would have nothing to do with it. Second of all, it's a matter of health care. He was saying how people complain that there's not enough funding for better health care for the poor, and then they vote to fund stem cell research, which will primarily benefit the rich.
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I'm gonna make up a term to describe my point. A "social directive" is something that focuses on the greater good, something that benefits all. There are several social directives that our taxes already fund: defense, education, traffic infrastructure, welfare, an much more. Health is beginning to emerge as another social directive, therefor, some of our collective effort should be dedicated to this as well. There is all kinds of government funded medical research today. Why not shift and boost some of this funding into stem cell research if the results could benefit such a large part of our population?
Free healthcare for the poor is also what I would classify as a social directive. Despite the fact it may not benefit a financially sound citizen directly, it is like a safety net; there when you need it (like public education). However, it is wise for citizens to direct some of our governments funds toward other greater goods. Deciding where and how to concentrate funding will be forever debatable because everyone has their own idea of priority.
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: Viaggio]
#3291956 - 10/28/04 11:16 PM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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Deciding where and how to concentrate funding will be forever debatable because everyone has their own idea of priority.
This is one reason why I favor keeping that money in the hands of the people so that they can decide for themselves what their priorities are.
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Unless I've misunderstood, I disagree with that. Sure, if people could govern themselves, then I'm sure social directives might be met. But most people can't govern themselves, so we embrace a system that assists us. Like the humans that created it, our system is not perfect, but it does offer us a certain quality of life that I am proud of when I compare it to other societies on Earth.
The results of stem cell research would raise our quality of life further, so I think it's an important avenue to fund.
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Re: Stem Cell Research [Re: Viaggio]
#3292143 - 10/29/04 12:13 AM (19 years, 5 months ago) |
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They only problem with this is that when you assume private enterprise and the free market won't always go for the most benificial route for our population. Thats why there is 20 different pills that get your dick hard because its reletively profitable. A combination of private enterprise and government grants in relation to R & D should be implimented
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Free healthcare for the poor is also what I would classify as a social directive. Despite the fact it may not benefit a financially sound citizen directly, it is like a safety net; there when you need it (like public education).
It can benefit a well off citizen because everybody need health care at some point. Its like infrastructure, everybody uses it. Somebody can choose government health care and put more money in their pocket, yes taxes take a hit but its not as much as the personal costs of health care or the costs of health care to private companies to an individual. The drug indistry is out of control in this country because its completely privatized...thats why drugs are so much cheaper in Canada
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