Human Beings Are Empowered To Exercise Dominion

I Think Too Often In Our Society Parents, Who May Have Good Impulses, Overreach And Try To Mold And Shape And Direct Their Child.

There Are Some Religious Traditions That View Human Beings As Participants In Creation. This Is True Of The Jewish Tradition, From Which I Come.

There Is A Tendency To Think That If We Engage Too Directly With Moral Questions In Politics, That's A Recipe For Disagreement, And For That Matter, A Recipe For Intolerance And Coercion.

The Norm Of Unconditional Parental Love, I Think, Depends On The Fact That We Don't Pick And Choose The Traits Of Our Children In The Way That We Pick And Choose The Features Of A Car We Might Order, Or A Consumer Good.

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.