Posted on 06/23/2015 11:17:49 AM PDT by Morgana
Peter Singer is something of a house ethicist for the New York Times and especially beloved of the weak liberal thinker, Nicolas Kristof.
While I think he should be treated the same as if he were a racist for his anti-human equality views, the media here mostly ooh and aah.
That is why I was pleased to see Singer pushed in an interview by a Swiss newspaper to claim that the lives of 200 (or some other number of) pigs should be saved from a fire over that of a single human baby. From the interview (Google translation):
Q: A newborn do not deem worthy of protection than an embryo. On the other hand you do not speak people per se a higher status than to animals.
Singer: Not belonging to the human species makes it morally wrong to kill a living being. Why should all members of the species Homo sapiens have a right to life and other species not? This idea arises only our religious heritage. We have been taught for centuries that man was created in the image of God that God has given us dominion over the animals and that we have immortal souls.
Why? Because if we are not all deemed morally equal–regardless of our capacities, age, or capabilities–there is no way to philosophically sustain universal human rights. Indeed, if our moral value depends on the outcome of our utilitarian-measured characteristics moment, to moment, to moment, no one is safe.
Then, Singer reveals his inner anti-humanism:
Q: If you were standing in front of a burning house, where 200 pigs and a child befänden, and you could save either the animals or the child, what would you do?
Singer: The suffering of animals at some point so great that you should decide to free the animals and not the child. Whether this point is reached at 200 or two million animals, I do not know. But one must not be burned countless animals in order to save a child’s life.
What if it was Singer’s baby? Good grief.
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The proper answer would be for Singer to say he could not perceive a circumstance in which the lives of pigs would matter more than that of a human being.
This comment exhibits the same invidious thinking as racism, just different potential victims.
Remember this the next time Nicolas Kristof turns to Singer as an authority in proper morality.
HT: BioEdge
LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.
So if Peter Singer is in a house on fire he can ask 200 pigs to save him, but no human should.
Human lives are valuable to liberals only when they can be used to advance the narrative/agenda.
The interesting feature is why is this creatures views given publicity? It is a principle of Psychology that when people are exposed to extreme views the move in the direction of accepting such views. The aforementioned principle explains why the leftist media bombards the populace with weird views on a repeated basis. “Take a lie, make it big enough, and repeat it often enough and people will believe it.”-Josef Goebbels Nazi Propaganda Minister. IT WORKS
when will he take his own life for just being part of the human race?
I’d save one pig from a bad haircut, before I’d cut Peter Singer’s necktie loose from a wood chipper.
“So if Peter Singer is in a house on fire he can ask 200 pigs to save him”
Just leave it at that thought. You can ask the pigs, but would the pigs understand? Never mind would they help.
It’s interesting that this grown-up who was once a child is advocating for the death of others due to whatever issue he shills for, but he’s unwilling to take that ever-so-important step of being a good example for others to follow by not offing himself.
They hate Judaism and Christianity so much that they are willing to go against human nature to show their hate.
The stuff about dominion over animals is based on human nature. The Bible and religion reflect human nature.
It is just a fire. You save the child and wait for the cooked pig meat to cool enough to eat. Yum. Yum. Pigs have no future. Only humans can save the Earth.
Thank you, that made my day!
Agenda21, wildlands project and America2050 all rolled into one!
I’d save one pig from a bad haircut, before I’d cut Peter Singer’s necktie loose from a wood chipper.
I wouldn’t pee in his mouth if his teeth were on fire!
This ass clown is on my airport list, too.
It’s only too bad that his parents didn’t make the
same choice, we all could have been eating pork BBQ
instead of listening to his drivel.
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