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To: farmer18th
And have you read Singer's essay(s)? They are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to attack from a logic standpoint. This is the point of the essays. He also wrote one (Famine, Affluence, and Morality http://www.petersingerlinks.com/famine.htm) in which the conclusion is that everyone has a moral duty to give away all of their money to the point that they are starving and freezing to death.

He makes an extremely compelling argument because he approaches the problem very logically and in a step-by-step manner. Anyhow, the point of his essays are not generally to persuade politically, but that clear and rational thought are necessary in dealing with questions of ethics, even if it leads to seemingly irrational results.
66 posted on 11/11/2003 12:50:16 PM PST by Viva Le Dissention
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To: Viva Le Dissention
Singer ... logical.

The ability of a single savant to marshal logic in his or her perverse favor is precisely why we can be grateful God chose to tell His story by carving it in stone. When a demonic presence like Singer comes along, advocating the killing of children, his ideas are dumped in the rubbish as they should be. Given the conclusion, his ideas are not worthy of consideration.
71 posted on 11/11/2003 12:57:21 PM PST by farmer18th
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