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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."

A Market Economy Is A Tool - A Valuable And Effective Tool - For Organizing Productive Activity. A Market Society Is A Way Of Life In Which Market Values Seep Into Every Aspect Of Human Endeavour. It's A Place Where Social Relations Are Made Over In The Image Of The Market.

I Think People Who Want To Use Genetic Technologies To Gain A Competitive Edge For Their Children Are Engaging In A Kind Of Overreaching That Could Really Undermine Our Appreciation Of Children As Gifts For Which We Should Be Grateful And, Instead, To View Them As Products Or Instruments That Are There To Be Molded And Directed.

I Think Part Of Being A Parent, To Love One's Child, Is To Accept Them As They Come - Not To See Them As Instruments Of Our Ambition Or As Creatures To Be Molded, As If They Were Themselves Commodities.

Most Economics That Is Taught In College And Universities Today Projects Itself As A Value-neutral Science. This Claim Has Always Been Open To Question, But I Think It's Especially In Doubt Today.