Posted on 11/27/2004 2:50:50 PM PST by naturalman1975
PETER Singer, once a Greens candidate and now our most famous philosopher, has changed his mind on killing babies.
Good news, you might think, since this author of Animal Liberation used to say parents had a right to kill imperfect children in their first month of life. But in fact he's now told World magazine it would be ethically fine to kill even one-year-olds with disabilities. Or even to breed babies for spare parts.
And Singer, now a professor at Princeton, continues his spiral into the moral abyss, by adding "there's no moral problem" with someone having sex with the corpse of their lover, or "nothing wrong inherently in a moral sense" with having sex with an animal.
But I believe consent must be obtained. Does one baa mean yes?
Singer proves yet again that those who demand that animals be treated like humans, are in fact demanding that humans be treated like animals. No wonder he approves us culling our runts, and putting to sleep our aged.
Did Alfred Kinsey hook up with Josef Mengele in the late forties and have himself cloned by any chance? I can't imagine that many people being attracted to his euthanasia mania, especially as they grow older. The hemlock movement sort of died about eight years ago when people thought things through and realized what they could expect from their health care providers if they ever got really sick or crippled themselves (follow the money).
The only difference between him and his more squeamish colleagues is that he is intellectually rigorous enough to follow their shared notions thru to the end. So, despite that his conclusions are monstrous, he is one of the most honest members of this crowd. He would go to the logical conclusion immediately. His colleagues would prefer sliding slowly down the slippery slope, never acknowledging the endgame.
Singer does the world a favor by advocating the endgame now. It keeps things in perspective.
Singer reminds me of the sinister doctor in Ingmar Bergman's film 'The Serpent's Egg.' Singer is nurturing his embryonic evil for a mature and monstrous emergence sometime in the future.
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183212
Yes. And to demonstrate his position he should be willing to volunteer himself for beheading by Islamic terrorists. After all, his life is meaningless, therefore his suffering and death would be more so.
I think it's true. But it's a good analogy regardless.
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I think, in all fairness to Mr. Singer, we would have to state that, under his philosophy, his suffering and death would be exactly as meaningless as his life. No more, no less.
And, under his philosphy, a world ruled by IslamoNazis who would take his life is no better or worse than the constitutional republic envisioned by the founders.
And that is the problem. In post-modernist thought, there can be no ethic except power. There is no way to distinguish good from bad living and no way to legitimately assign to Hitler, the title of 'monster.' He was just expressing Nazi culture which is no better or worse blah blah blah.
What amazes me is that these people cannot see that the philosophy they regard as the antidote to Western Culture can exist only in the context of a successful Western Culture, which protects them from the folks whose cultures' are neither better nor worse blah blah blah, all the while they are screaming that the West should not protect itself.
I've read alot of Singers articles and works over the years.
He is probably indifferent to terrorism to people.
I honest to god, think he is mentally ill. I don't mean weird, or whatever, I mean, disturbed and in need of therapy and medication. His writings and views show extremely heavy signs of psychotic thinking. Just because someone can appear normal and dress themselves, and know science doesn't mean the person is necessarily sane. Just because alot of liberals agree with him, they shouldn't automatically assume he's got proper control of his faculties.
It boggles my mind, how if I wrote the same articles and held the same views as Singer, I would be getting a mighty quick visit from the guys in white coats or be institutionalized, Singer gets a job and an audience.
Its a good analogy, but its not true.
And no I didn't torture a poor from to find out, I think snopes or one of those urban legend websites debunked it.
I hate evil.
Sick puppy alert! (Singer)
To think we were so horrified by the Nazis.
What you said: "What amazes me is that these people cannot see that the philosophy they regard as the antidote to Western Culture can exist only in the context of a successful Western Culture, which protects them from the folks whose cultures' are neither better nor worse blah blah blah, all the while they are screaming that the West should not protect itself."
is a great post, I study lots of this postmodern theory in grad school (glad I'm almost done) I really want to read great books and talk about them not discuss lots of half-baked European theorists still high on Franz Fanon and Foucault. Your comments remind me of a great scene from a 1984 movie, "Moscow on the Hudson." Robin Williams has just defected. bewildered and penniless, and goes to a tony cocktail partywhere he meets a well-dressed woman who teaches Marxism at Columbia. Just try to teach anything or be a woman in a Muslim-controlled country. Burkha city and worse and of course no sucking at the academic tit while trying to tear down your country.
He's right out of central casting.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Any article about Peter Singer is a good article for this pinglist. Longer articles that really explain his views would be good. Then we can destroy his arguments and help those who have been influenced or are likely to be influenced by the stream of effluent issuing from his twisted psyche.
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
Peter Singer is a dead-set nutcase.
Peter Singer is a prime example of what America and the world would be like without Christians saying, "No, you will not do that!"
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