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Published in the current issue of the secular humanist journal Free Inquiry, the declaration asserts that "the moral issues raised by cloning are neither larger nor more profound than the questions human beings have already faced."
What law or principle--secular, humanist, or religious--says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
Here was a Renaissance humanist who regarded his fellow men as "stupid and deranged," "sacks for food," and "fillers-up of privies," and relished the thought of humanity's destruction in a universal deluge.
But to have a gentle black giant hang his head and say "Yes, Boss," while almost every guard in a Louisiana prison circa 1935 is portrayed as a forward-thinking, tolerant humanist is the biggest backhanded slap I've seen in a studio movie in a long time.
That Du Bois--who exists in the field of black studies these days as rather the black equivalent of Einstein (theorist), Dr. Johnson (wordsmith), Emerson (humanist), and Kant (moral philosopher), separately and together, as it were--is evoked by the editors in their introduction provides this volume with a pedigree that I suppose they thought it needed, making Gates and Appiah our intellectual knights who have given us the Holy Grail.