136. On the other hand, it is troubling that, when some ecological movements defend the integrity of
the environment, rightly demanding that certain limits be imposed on scientific research, they
sometimes fail to apply those same principles to human life. There is a tendency to justify
transgressing all boundaries when experimentation is carried out on living human embryos. We forget
that the inalienable worth of a human being transcends his or her degree of development. In the same
way, when technology disregards the great ethical principles, it ends up considering any practice
whatsoever as licit. As we have seen in this chapter, a technology severed from ethics will not easily
be able to limit its ownpower.
