The Great Debate
- John Petrucci
penjelasan singkat sebelumnya
[Both Channels] sudut pandang orang tengah/netral yang memperhatikan perdebatan
[Left Channels] sudut pandang pro stem-cell research
[Right Channels] sudut pandang kontra stem-cell research
Untuk stem cell sendiri bisa dibaca di sini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell
intinya stem cell ini menggunakan embrio manusia sebagai bahannya.
ini yang menjadi kontroversi
"A Gallup snapshot poll taken immediately after [Both Channels]
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." [Left Channel]
"Who's going to scream the loudest, will it be the [Both Channels]
right-to-lifer's, 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 [Right Channel]
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 [Left Channel]
about, these embryos were produced in an artificial
scientific environment, in vitro fertilization is
not God's will."
"That doesn't make them any less human though, after [Right Channel]
that happens."
"We're on a road where we really don't where we're [Both Channels]
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?" [Left Channel]
[The following samples are played simultaneously]
"Well that's right, it's the old question, I mean if [Left Channel]
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. [??] kill someone [??]"
"And I'd like to mention that we don't have the answers [Left Channel]
yet. We need to put the money into something that'll
hopefully get 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... [??]" [Right Channel]
What if someone said
Promise lies ahead
Hopes are high in certain scientific circles
Life won't have to end
You could walk again
Pro:
bayangkan sebuah temuan sains yang menjanjikan
yang dapat membuat orang lumpuh bisa kembali berjalan
keberlangsungan hidup dijamin
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
Kontra:
Permasalahannya penemuan ini sangatlah kontroversial
hak untuk hidup dan keinginan orang untuk bertahan hidup sangatlah kuat
tapi ini salah
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
Netral:
Umat manusia menghadapi pilihan yang sulit
dipicu oleh konlfik dan peperangan
apa kita berpaling kepada kepercayaan kita
atau kepada para ilmuan yang berusaha mencari penyembuhan
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
Pro/Kontra:
beralihlah ke kebenaran, jangan takut akan akibat yang terjadi
berbalik arah akan mengakibatkan kesalahan fatal
Anarchist moral vision
Industries of death
Facing violent opposition
Unmolested breath
Ethic inquisitions breed
Antagonistic views
Right wing sound bite premonitions
A labyrinth of rules
Pro:
pihak kontra terlalu melihat sisi moralis dan cenderung tidak mengikuti undang
pihak pro mendapat tekanan2 hingga berbentuk kekerasan
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
Kontra:
apakah tindakan anda terjustifikasi dengan membunuh orang untuk menyelamatkan orang lain?
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
Pro:
Temuan yang sangat penuh perdebatan ini
tidak bisa dibuang begitu saja
ada yang percaya, bahwa ini merupakan kunci untuk penyembuhan
Are you justified
Are you justified
Are you justified
Justified in taking
Life to save life
Life to save life
Life to save life
Kontra:
apakah tindakan anda terjustifikasi dengan membunuh orang untuk menyelamatkan orang lain?
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
Netral
Turn to the light
Don't be frightened of the shadows it creates
Turn to the light
Turning away would be a terrible mistake
Pro/Kontra
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
Netral:
Kedua pandangan saling berbenturan,
sebuah temuan ilmiah yang dianggap mukjizat medikal
namun juga dianggap sebagai tindakan yang amoral
di saat ini pemerintah dihadapi dengan sebuah keputusan
nasib orang lain, masa depan orang lain, ditangan mereka
apakah meneruskan riset ini? atau mengutuknya?
moral dan sains berbenturan
Turn to the light
We defy our own mortality these days
Turn to the light
Pay attention to the questions we have raised
Pro/Kontra:
kedua pihak saling melakukan pembenaran akan pandangan mereka
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"...research, scientific advancement. And I know we're [Left Channel]
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 uh 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 [Right Channel]
me though is that all of these embryos that are are set or
uh being discarded for example um is this worse than just
throwing those away?"
"We don't know if they're going to be discarded. All of a [Right Channel]
sudden, I mean, we're going to say, uh 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 [Right Channel]
fertility clinics have extra embryos."
"Stem cells come from developing human beings and that they [Right Channel]
shouldn't be uh experimented on in a way that 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 that uh is [Left Channel]
uh 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 [Right Channel]
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?"
