...served to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader: after all, they are both growths... ...oth growths, clusters of cells. The difference, of course, is that no one contracts cancer willingly (except, to some extent, smokers -–but, then t... ...xamples: excessive use of antibiotics leads to drug- resistant strains of pathogens, cancer is caused by pollution, heart ailments are related to mod... ...nt layers - historical, psychological, semantic, and semiotic - I had to "enter the skin" of "rational", classic anti-Semites, to grasp what makes t... ...companions, colleagues, family, or neighbors were reluctantly ingested by isolated survivors of horrid accidents (the Uruguay rugby team whose plan... ...life of the cloned baby. Yet, the nucleus is usually extracted from a muscle or the skin. Should we treat a muscle or a skin cell with the same rev... ...caust? What if the denizens of said erstwhile inconsequential spot were to be only survivors of such a conflagration? Clearly, such circumstances w... .... People are judged to belong to different qualitative groups (classified by race, skin color, birth, gender, age, wealth, or other arbitrary param... ...of religious faith... for collective commitment to decent social conditions... (the survivors) found strength in the revealed word of an absolute, ...