One Can Imagine A Kind Of Hormonal

What Intrigued Me Most Was Not The Technology As Such But The Questions About The Human Goods, The Fundamental Human Values And Virtues That Are Raised By Debates Over Biotechnology.

Parenthood Is A School For Humility. We Can't Choose The Precise Traits Of Our Children, And That Is Morally Important. It Teaches Us What William May, A Theologian Whom I Greatly Admire, Calls "an Openness To The Unbidden."

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

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.

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.