I Think The Reason We Might Hesitate

A Better Way To Mutual Respect Is To Engage Directly With The Moral Convictions Citizens Bring To Public Life, Rather Than To Require That People Leave Their Deepest Moral Convictions Outside Politics Before They Enter.

To Argue About Justice Is Unavoidably To Argue About Virtues, About Substantive Moral And Even Spiritual Questions.

One Can Imagine A Kind Of Hormonal Arms Race Or Genetic Arms Race, Whether It's To Do With Height Or Iq, Conceivably, In The Future. So It's Limitless, And That's Another Of The Features That Sets It Apart From Medical Intervention.

There Is A Tendency To Think That If We Engage Too Directly With Moral Questions In Politics, That's A Recipe For Disagreement, And For That Matter, A Recipe For Intolerance And Coercion.

I Do Think It Is Very Important That The Religious Communities Do Try To Bring Their Teachings And Their Insights To Bear On The Stem Cell Debate And On The Debate About Genetic Engineering.