Are You Attached to Your Children?

There's something about protecting next generation that can introduce variability into the system. So if you only were attached to your children, and this is a bit of the modern middle-class American model, right? The sensible thing to do would be to go look out at the universe of children and find the ones that you thought were most likely to succeed. And there's a puzzle about why those unconditional commitments give us a kind of moral dimension that's different from the tit for tat contractual kinds of moral commitments.