The Way Things Are Does Not Determine

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.

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.

Economics Has Increasingly Become The Science Of Human Behavior In General, And It's All The More Unlikely To Think That It Can Possibly Be Value-free - And, In Fact, It Isn't. Economics Rests On Un-argued Assumptions That Need To Be Examined.

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

Other Animals Can Make Sounds, And Sounds Can Indicate Pleasure And Pain. But Language, A Distinctly Human Capacity, Isn´t Just For Registering Pleasure And Pain. It´s About Declaring What Is Just And What Is Unjust, And Distinguishing Right From Wrong. We Don´t Grasp These Things Silently, And Then Put Words To Them; Language Is The Medium Through Which We Discern And Deliberate About The Good.