In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.
Michael SandelToday 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.
Michael SandelI would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.
Michael SandelI think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.
Michael Sandel