Sunday, May 10, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Charity level


Maimonides, often called by his acronym RaMBaM (Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon), was a 12th century Jewish scholar and physician. Rambam wrote a code of Jewish law, the Mishnah Torah, based on the Rabbinic oral tradition.
And here is the level from the highest order;-
1. The highest form of charity is to help sustain a person before they become impoverished by offering a substantial gift in a dignified manner, or by extending a suitable loan, or by helping them find employment or establish themselves in business so as to make it unnecessary for them to become dependent on others
2. When the donor and recipient are unknown to each other.

3. When the donor is aware of the recipient's identity, but the recipient is unaware of the source.

4. When the recipient is aware of the donor's identity, but the donor does not know the identity of the recipient.

5. When one gives directly to the poor without being asked.

We should change the ways we give out and not necessarily expect the same to return whatever giving out is good but there is a level that says a lot.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Prenatal genetic screening


Would you term it "inevitable move" or "crossing the line", if you can choose the physical traits or designs a baby?. Well, this is going to happen in reality soon if US based fertility clinic had its way. You soon can able to choose your baby skin's colour, select characteristics like eye and hair colour, pattern whats more, even eliminate several disease long before the baby is born or in the foetus stage.

 Cause it ensure a baby is born healthy. Critics argued that we should be too much interfering with natural process and that would be unethical move.Moreover, would have possible consequences like the notion of racial purity, or restricted to a certain section because of its high cost

 But most people support the idea and terms its as a "inevitable move" . Building a better, healthier baby ensuring a formed figure and would prevent a number of disease. One such instance  is the introduction of IVF(in vitro fertilisation) . It was considered unnatural, but IVF surprisingly had found many taker and acceptance, It also offer parenthood to a number of childless couple without it it might never experience its joy in its natural scheme of things