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Over The Past Three Decades, Markets And Market Thinking Have Been Reaching Into Spheres Of Life Traditionally Governed By Non-market Norms. As A Result, We've Drifted From Having A Market Economy To Becoming A Market Society.

There's No Necessary Connection Between Maximizing Social Utility Or Economic Wealth And Creating A Flourishing Democracy. The First Does Not Guarantee The Second. The Only Way To Create A Flourishing Democracy Is To Find Ways To Reason Together About The Big Questions, Including Hard Questions About Justice And The Common Good, To Reason Together About These Questions So That We As Citizens Can Decide How To Shape The Forces That Govern Our Lives.

Human Beings Are Empowered To Exercise Dominion Over Nature And Even To Be Participants In Creation; And Yet, At The Same Time, There Are Strictures Against Idolatry, Which Is A Kind Of Overreaching And Confusing Human Beings' Role With God's.

In Natural Pregnancy, More Than Half Of Fertilized Eggs Fail To Implant Or Are Otherwise Lost. Should We Regard That As An Instance Of Infant Mortality? And If So, Why Are We Not Mounting Ambitious Public Health Campaigns To Try To Save And Rescue All Of The Fertilized Eggs That Are Lost In Natural Pregnancy? We Would Need A Public Health Campaign Of Massive Proportions If There Really Were Over A Fifty Percent Rate Of Infant Mortality.

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