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In Natural Pregnancy, More Than Half Of Fertilized Eggs Fail To Implant Or Are Otherwise Lost. Should We Regard That As An Instance Of Infant Mortality? And If So, Why Are We Not Mounting Ambitious Public Health Campaigns To Try To Save And Rescue All Of The Fertilized Eggs That Are Lost In Natural Pregnancy? We Would Need A Public Health Campaign Of Massive Proportions If There Really Were Over A Fifty Percent Rate Of Infant Mortality.

I Do Not Argue That Nature Is Sacrosanct In The Sense That We Must Never Tamper With Nature. That Would Disempower, Really, All Of Medicine. That Would Mean That We Can't Combat Dread Diseases - Malaria, Polio, All Of Which Are Given By Nature, If One Thinks About It.

Democracy Does Not Require Perfect Equality, But It Does Require That Citizens Share A Common Life. What Matters Is That People Of Different Backgrounds And Social Positions Encounter One Another, And Bump Up Against One Another, In The Course Of Ordinary Life.

The Simplest Way Of Understanding Justice Is Giving People What They Deserve. This Idea Goes Back To Aristotle. The Real Difficulty Begins With Figuring Out Who Deserves What And Why.

I Have A Broad But Not An Expert Or Scholarly Background In The Jewish Tradition. I've Tried To Learn What I Can From Childhood, But I Am Not An Expert On Jewish Teachings.