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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.

If Parents Are Aiming At Choosing Children Who Will Be Good Athletes, Or Great Musicians, Or Who Will Get Into Ivy League Schools, Or Who Will Be Tall Enough To Make The Basketball Team, Then There Is A Danger That The Life Of The Child Will Bear The Burden Of That Expectation; And The Risk Of Disappointment And The Cost Of Disappointment Will Be Even Higher Than They Are Now, And Even Now They Can Be Considerable.

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.

The Other Effect That I Worry About Is The Effect On The Parent, That The Moral Teaching Of Humility And Of The Limits To Our Control That Parenthood Teaches- - That That Will Be Lost And That We Will Begin To Think Of Children More As Consumer Goods Than As Gifts That We Can't Fully Control And For Which We Aren't Fully Responsible.

The Simplest Way Of Understanding Justice Is Giving People What They Deserve. This Idea Goes Back To Aristotle. The Real Difficulty Begins With Figuring Out Who Deserves What And Why.