Aiming At Giving Our Kids A Competitive

One Can Imagine A Kind Of Hormonal Arms Race Or Genetic Arms Race, Whether It's To Do With Height Or Iq, Conceivably, In The Future. So It's Limitless, And That's Another Of The Features That Sets It Apart From Medical Intervention.

There's No Necessary Connection Between Maximizing Social Utility Or Economic Wealth And Creating A Flourishing Democracy. The First Does Not Guarantee The Second. The Only Way To Create A Flourishing Democracy Is To Find Ways To Reason Together About The Big Questions, Including Hard Questions About Justice And The Common Good, To Reason Together About These Questions So That We As Citizens Can Decide How To Shape The Forces That Govern Our Lives.

If Parents Are Aiming At Choosing Children Who Will Be Good Athletes, Or Great Musicians, Or Who Will Get Into Ivy League Schools, Or Who Will Be Tall Enough To Make The Basketball Team, Then There Is A Danger That The Life Of The Child Will Bear The Burden Of That Expectation; And The Risk Of Disappointment And The Cost Of Disappointment Will Be Even Higher Than They Are Now, And Even Now They Can Be Considerable.

I Would Include Non-medical Sex Selection As One Of Those Practices That I Think Is Morally Questionable And That Can Carry Adverse Social Consequences.

The Most Fateful Change That Unfolded During The Past Three Decades Was Not An Increase In Greed. It Was The Expansion Of Markets, And Of Market Values, Into Spheres Of Life Where They Don’t Belong.