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Alexander Görlach sees in the euro the new reserve currency
Despite the ongoing debt crisis, the euro could have a brilliant future as a new reserve currency, writes Alexander Görlach, chief editor of the magazine The European, in the blog of the London School of Economics: "Should we succeed in establishing common financial policies, common supervision of banks and a European Minister of Finance, it will be possible to create the necessary structures to organize future debt within a common European framework. Over time, the current differences of the European economies - which paradoxically already subside within a common economic zone - will balance themselves out. … These steps will also succeed in regaining the trust of the infamous financial markets: In Europe, problems are addressed at the root and not overplayed by starting the money presses at the European Central Bank. ... Europe is well on its way in the right direction. If the heads of states now embark on the path towards more integration and sacrifice some national sovereignty for common financial policies, the Euro will be the next global reserve currency. And nobody will even remember this crisis."
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Man is not God
"The spoilsports in the Catholic Church have voiced the opinion that experimenting with the human genetic make-up violates human dignity and Biblical teaching. Researchers may consider these words relics of the past. Nevertheless they are a portent for the sustainability of our society. What is our view of human dignity? The search for therapies and cures for diseases is an abstract goal. But in concrete cases, the use - and destruction - of living embryos is diametrically opposed to this goal. Human life is degraded and reduced to genetic material, to research matter in a test tube. ... This chimera stands for the overbearing pride of man the researcher, whose scientific curiosity pushes him to rival God. Our tradition offers analogies from Adam to Dr. Frankenstein. In general, the undoing of proud man is the very inconvertibility of the promises he makes to himself. Adam is exiled from Paradise and Dr. Frankenstein perishes in the eternal ice. Man has seldom done well by his desire to rival God. Because man is just that - man, and not God."
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