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Dream Theater - The Great Debate Lyrics |
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Current Rating: 4.00 (1 votes)  | "A Gallup snapshot poll taken immediately after President Bush's speech
On funding embryonic stem cell research last night shows
That half of Americans approve of his decision, 25% do not
And still another 25% aren't sure what to think"
"Most people don't even know what stem cells are"
"Who's going to scream the loudest, will it be the Right-to-lifers?
Will it be the scientists? And now what's going to happen is that
There will be a tremendous amount of lobbying in Washington D.C.
Scientists, entertainers, people who want to see this research
Will be coming forth"
"I'm concerned about it, Christopher Reeves is concerned about it
Everyone is concerned about it
But the big question is, do the ends justify the means?
And when we talk about research, yes we can cure a lot things speculatively
But where's the proof?"
"These developing human beings that they're talking about
These embryos were produced in an artificial scientific environment
Vitro fertilization is not God's will"
"That doesn't make them any less human though, after that happens"
"We're on a road where we really don't know where we're going as far as what's
next
We're talking about harvesting embryos
We're talking about this, we're talking about that
But what is the cost?"
"How could we possibly abandon the research?"
[The following samples are played simultaneously]
"Well that's right, it's the old question, I mean if you think
The research is good, of course you'd have no problem at all with it
It's only if you think the research involved is something evil
Then you get the question of 'Is it okay to ...?'
And the truth of the matter is that we do that all the time with organ
transplants
I mean with people that are killed or murdered or
People who're just victims of automobile accidents, abandoning all ...
We do take their organs and we look to try to save other lives
We try to ... all the time."
"And I'd like to mention that we don't have the answers yet
We need to put the money into something that'll hopefully
Tet those answers in the future
Listen, we're out of time"
"And in this country there was a great outrage of from all points
From churches, mainline ... that you can not use ... to cure ...
and as it turned out ... great outrage..."
What if someone said
Promise lies ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific circles
Life won't have to end
You could walk again
What if someone said
Problems lie ahead
They've uncovered something highly controversial
The right to life is strong
Can't you see it's wrong
Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
Anarchistic moral vision
Industries of death
Facing violent opposition
Unmolested breathe
Ethic inquisitions breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing sound bite premonitions
In a labyrinth of rules
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
This embryonic clay
Wrapped in fierce debate
Would be thrown away
Or otherwise discarded
Some of us believe
It may hold the key
To treatment of disease
And secrets highly guarded
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
Human kind has reached a turning point
Poised for conflict at ground zero
Ready for a war
Do we look to our unearthly guide
Or to white coat heroes
Searching for a cure
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
We're reaching
But have we gone too far
Harvesting existence
Only to destroy
Carelessly together
We are sliding
Someone else's future
Four days frozen still
Someone else's fate
We are deciding
Miracle potential
Sanctity of life
Faced against each other
We're divided
Should we push the boundaries
Or should we condemn
Moral guilt and science
Have collided
Turn to the light
We defy our own mortality these days
Turn to the light
Pay attention to the questions we have raised
"Research, scientific advancement
And I know we're going down a road that we may not know where we end
But we... that's exactly what science is all about
I'm very sorry, but I you know I do feel sympathy for people who
Whose spines are... have been severed
There's a possibility we might be able to cure them
I am concerned about a cure for juvenile diabetes
And if these types of scientific advancements can cure these diseases
Then quite candidly I think there ought to be at least
What President Bush has said, some limited research"
"One of the one of the big questions that still remains for me though
Is that all of these embryos that are are set or being discarded
For example is this worse than just throwing those away?"
"We don't know if they're going to be discarded
All of a sudden, I mean, we're going to say
We started with the ones that are going to be discarded
Then all of a sudden, we're going to have people being solicited
To donate parts of their their anatomy to harvest parts of, like
A part of what have you. I mean that's how's it starts."
"Even though if they start soliciting
Women and men in fertility clinics have extra embryos"
"Stem cells come from developing human beings
And that they shouldn't be experimented on in a way
Tat doesn't make sense or that is unethical
But at the same time there is great promise"
"I have a 28-year-old son, her grandson, that is paraplegic
And if there is a small chance that my son would be able
To have any feeling and be able to walk, I am for it"
"A human body having evolving for tens of thousands of years
And we're just injecting cells from embryos into people's brains and
And how do we come to, to do something like that?" |
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