Where we're heading

The Economist has a long article about In Vetro Babies, where they can legally be grown and where not. Let's just say that it is a mad patchwork of overlapping, mutually exclusive laws, where all the different countries with all their different rules make certain that everything is possible somewhere, but you're just going to have to collect a lot of air miles if you want to get everything done.

That's going to continue to happen, I suspect. At the rate that science is now advancing it seems that law will always be two steps behind. That's if we're (un)lucky. Science is moving ever faster and a great deal of the advancement isn't happening in the West anymore. That means Western law, supposedly the most advanced and humane (very arguable, I admit), might not even be aware of some of the latest advances in the latest fields.

I could argue that we need some sort of international law coordination agency that helps different countries bring their laws into line, but that aint going to happen. Look how much respect the UN is given, and that agency only suggests policy, it doesn't try to make law. No, we are all to convinced that our own countrymen are so much wiser than those from over the border, let alone those over the horizon and of course we're right, every last one of us.