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

Today If You Look At Most Economic Textbooks, Economics Is Not Defined By Subject Matter. It's Presented As A Science Of Social Choice That Applies Not Only To Material Goods - Not Only To Flat-screen Televisions - But To Every Decision We Make, Whether It's To Get Married, Or To Stay Married, Whether To Have Children And How To Educate Those Children, Or How To Look After Our Health.

I Would Include Non-medical Sex Selection As One Of Those Practices That I Think Is Morally Questionable And That Can Carry Adverse Social Consequences.

In Some Parts Of The World, That Sex Selection For Boys - And It's Usually For Boys - Reflects Sex Discrimination Against Girls, And It Leads To Very Large Imbalances - In China, In Korea, In India - In The Population Between Boys And Girls, A Vast Disproportion Of Boys To Girls, And It Reflects Really This Discriminatory Attitude Toward Girls.

There Are Really Exercises In A Kind Of Consumerist Ethic That I Think Don't Have The Same Moral Weight As Medicine Or Health.