Parenthood Is A School For Humility. We

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

One Of The Ways In Which Parenting Is A Learning Experience And An Opportunity For Moral Growth Is That We Learn As Parents That We Don't Choose The Kind Of Child That We Have.

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.

The Way Things Are Does Not Determine The Way They Ought To Be

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.