Simon Cooper, Arena Magazina - The Small Matter of Our Humanity: "Often enough we find that attempts to grapple with 'posthuman' - technologies such as cloning, genetic engineering, personality-altering drugs - tend to avoid the ethical question altogether. At the moment it is still possible to remain sceptical about whether science can actually deliver its promise of human cloning and miracle cures. Alternatively, one can claim that bio-technologies simply continue the Enlightenment project of progress through knowledge and are thus inherently ethical. And while the attempt to patent the human genome project, the DNA of Icelanders, or rice in India is enough to remind us that the growth of knowledge is not always beneficial, it is easy enough to make someone else sound less ethical than you by asking them whether they really want to prevent people overcoming diseases/living longer/having children and so on."