My Goal Is First Of All To

Markets Are Useful Instruments For Organizing Productive Activity. But Unless We Want To Let The Market Rewrite The Norms That Govern Social Institutions, We Need A Public Debate About The Moral Limits Of Markets.

My Goal Is First Of All To Promote A Public Debate About Where Markets Serve The Public Good And Where They Don't Belong. That's My First Goal.

I Am Trying To Get At The Moral Arguments And The Ethical Status Of Various Attempts At Enhancement, Or Genetic Engineering, Or The Bid For Designer Children. But There Are Implications For Society At Large.

It's Possible To Make Sense Of What's Morally At Stake In An Appreciation Of The Gift Of Life, Or The Gift Of A Child, Without Necessarily Presupposing That There Is A Giver. What Matters Is That The Gift - In This Case, The Child - Not Be Wholly Our Own Doing, Our Own Product.

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.