<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # If there is something sacred about human life,... > If there is something sacred about human life, then there is something profoundly strange about treating preventable suffering as sacred because the instrument capable of preventing it is technologically unfamiliar. Science is the disciplined refusal to accept ignorance as revelation. Medicine is the disciplined refusal to accept suffering as destiny. And biotechnology is increasingly the point where those two refusals meet, which is why categorical opposition to genomic medicine, molecular programming, regenerative medicine, and neurotechnology eventually begins to look less like reverence for humanity than reverence for humanity’s limitations. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “If there is something sacred about human life, then there is something profoundly strange about treating preventable suffering as sacred because the instrument capable of preventing it is technologically unfamiliar. Science is the disciplined refusal to accept ignorance as revelation. Medicine is the disciplined refusal to accept suffering as destiny. And biotechnology is increasingly the point where those two refusals meet, which is why categorical opposition to genomic medicine, molecular programming, regenerative medicine, and neurotechnology eventually begins to look less like reverence for humanity than reverence for humanity’s limitations.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-something-sacred-human-reverence-humanitys-limitations ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->