I wonder how he feels about animal lives.
Self-awareness is hardly a criterion that unequivocally separates those that should live from those that should not. The vast majority of animals have no self-awareness. They are sapient; they are capable of feeling the range of emotions and sensations like cold, heat, hunger, pain, etc. But if you show them a mirror they will not recognize the image in the mirror as themselves; hence, they have no self-awareness. Elephants have self-awareness, as do higher primates.
This is why I wonder what Singer's feelings on killing animals are. If he insists that animals be granted the rights of humans, while claiming that very young children have no such rights, then he is a giant hypocrite. If he insists that it is okay to kill animals for whatever reason because they do not have self-awareness, then he is at least consistent--evil and lacking a sense of conscience, but consistent.
He's said that gorillas and monkeys have self-awareness, so they are superior to human infants and toddlers.
So he has said it's OK to kill a human child, but that an ape has "rights" that need to be respected.
YES, he has said that.
He's a vegetarian, too, because animals are so much more important than children.
This dude would make a fantastic Nazi
And I say that in the literal sense.