In a state of continued perplexity
Sir, Christopher Caldwell with his “On parenthood and perplexity”, February 24, leaves us perplexed about the need of the late Anna Nicole Smith to serve as an excuse to discuss some of the most fundamental issues of our time, or perhaps that’s just the way it goes, the more important the issue the sillier the excuse needed.
That said let me compliment and complement the article by slipping by two comments that might help to keep us perplexed and attentive. First since the issue of genetic testing to “determine whether you have a pre-existing medical condition” was briefly touched upon, on passé, and these tests risk to exclude anyone of us from the pool of normal insurable and shared risks, leaving us out in the cold, what now any individual, and indeed the whole society most need, is an insurance against whatever could be discovered in those tests. Second, and as any honest right-to-life conviction cannot go hand in hand with any further-delay-of-life action there are some groups pushing for the adoption of frozen-embryos, which could then lead us into a discussion of primary, secondary, and perhaps even of intellectual fathers.
That said let me compliment and complement the article by slipping by two comments that might help to keep us perplexed and attentive. First since the issue of genetic testing to “determine whether you have a pre-existing medical condition” was briefly touched upon, on passé, and these tests risk to exclude anyone of us from the pool of normal insurable and shared risks, leaving us out in the cold, what now any individual, and indeed the whole society most need, is an insurance against whatever could be discovered in those tests. Second, and as any honest right-to-life conviction cannot go hand in hand with any further-delay-of-life action there are some groups pushing for the adoption of frozen-embryos, which could then lead us into a discussion of primary, secondary, and perhaps even of intellectual fathers.
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