The two top headlines on Drudge right now are “MEMO: Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information’ for CIA” and “‘I Can Clone a Human Being.’” Both stories suggest that human beings are indeed very creative and imaginative, and can do remarkably clever things that end up helping some other human beings. But no matter how much good may come of any

particular course of action, we must never entirely abandon curiosity on the question, “Is it morally right to do it?”