Brave New (Fallen) World

It's been quite a week for ethical issues in the  NY Times.

Yesterday's top headline was about how researchers mapped a fetus's genome before its birth using samples from the mother's hair and father's saliva. The announcement holds a lot of promise--but a lot of creepiness. Will parents abort when they realize the baby they're carrying will have any one of (or a combo of) factors considered unideal? What do you think?

Then in today's top stories, David Brooks writes an opinion piece that contrasts our morality when we viewed ourselves as depraved in the past generation compared with our current view of ourselves as "pretty good people." Guess which group was more likely to justify a little pilfering?