10 ideas on the way out By 2040, many things we take for granted will no longer exist

The Dallas Morning News ^ | 11-27-2005 | Various

[1066AD]

The sanctity of life

By Peter Singer

During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.

[1066AD]

The sanctity of life

Political parties

Monogamy

and so on, something for just about everyone !

[Ken522]

Peter Singer is very "advant-guarde," very forward thinking ... a real gem!

[tet68]

I would be willing to bet that NONE of their predictions
turn out the way they think.

[Cicero]

Peter Singer advocates killing babies up to a year old, if they have any physical defects. He also advocates the practice of bestiality.

In the old days, he would have been considered a Nazi. He still resembles a Nazi, regardless of the approval he currently receives from the deluded left.

Princeton University gave him a distinguished chair. That doesn't say much for Princeton.

[enviros_kill]

This entire article could be used for a United Nations charter with very little change. It's another cultural assault on the American values and beliefs that started this nation.

The Dallas Morning News threw a sample of their bird cage liner on my lawn yesterday or I would have never seen this. It's articles like this that make me supremely glad I stopped subscribing to hard copy newspapers years ago. If people would simply stop subscribing they'd get the message-just like Hollywood is.

[Sonny M]

Peter Singer, in light of his treatment of his mother, is a hypocrite.

[gungafox]

I love the way people talk about "the sanctity of life from conception" when what they really mean is the idea of there being such a thing as a "right to life" sufficient to compell other people to undergo hardship and suffering. In my lifetime in the real world, all I've ever seen that idea do is elect democrats to public office. If "right2life(TM)" is gone by 2040, I won't miss it.

[SouthernFreebird]

Thank goodnes they didn't say bananas...I've been worried about that.

[Arkinsaw]

He wishes. Unfortunately, the majority of the world population is not made up of wealthy, effete, liberals and therefore this utopian dream shall not come to pass (or if it does, it won't be long before the 'little people' pull it down in disgust).

[ClearCase_guy]

Needs a barf alert.

[johnny7]

That doesn't say much for Princeton.

Yo yo yo Princeton!

[Lurker]

Peter Singer is a monster who should have his 'theories' applied to his own miserable hide.

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[little jeremiah]

I suppose I'll have to read this crap and ping it out later.

[newzjunkey]

Hey, it's Pete Singer writing that part. Didn't he say mothers should be able to have post-natal abortions up to a month after birth?

[newzjunkey]

You've only been here a week. Perhaps you got lost looking for the Democrat Underground?

[Malesherbes]

Tet68's prediction is one I would agree with. I would add an 11th prediction: the Dallas Morning News will cease to exist.

[little jeremiah]

In other words, you support the right of a mother to kill her unborn child, is that correct?

What about euthanasia, you like that too?

[DManA]

Funny he mentions know-nothings. Intolerance and fear of religions they didn't understand was a hallmark of know-nothing-ism. Mr. Singer is the very embodiment of that attitude.

[hedgetrimmer]

Sovereignty

By Richard N. Haass

Sovereignty — the notion that governments are free to do what they want within their own territory — has provided the organizing principle of international relations for more than 350 years. Thirty-five years from now, sovereignty will no longer be sanctuary. Powerful new forces and insidious threats will converge against it.

Nation-states will not disappear, but they will share power with a larger number of powerful nonsovereign actors than ever before, including corporations, nongovernmental organizations, terrorist groups, drug cartels, regional and global institutions, and banks and private equity funds. Sovereignty will fall victim to the powerful and accelerating flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, e-mails and weapons within and across borders. All of this traffic challenges one of the fundamentals of sovereignty: the ability to control what crosses borders. Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

Implicit in this is the notion that sovereignty is conditional, even contractual, rather than absolute. If a state sponsors terrorism, develops weapons of mass destruction or conducts genocide, then it forfeits the normal benefits of sovereignty and opens itself up to attack, removal or occupation.

The world in 2040 will be semi-sovereign. It will reflect the need to adapt legal and political principles to a world in which the most serious challenges to order come from what global forces do to states and what governments do to their citizens, rather than from what states do to one another.

Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations

If Americans elect Condi Rice or any other of the candidates proposed by the GOP or even the democratic party, then this will come to pass. Americans must not elect candidates associated with the Council on Foreign Relations, they are actively working to destroy the concept of sovereignty and thus the protection that our constitution provides sovereign citizens of the United States of America are supposed to enjoy. Please note that this is NOT happening because the American people have asked for it to happen, but that a corrupt group of individuals have been put into power in our government and they are acting from within to bring their plan to eliminate nations to fruition.

[GermanBusiness]

[all I've ever seen that idea do is elect democrats to public office]

This is so true of young urban American women: when you dig deep down inside of an addled liberal brain, you will find the sheer hatred for Republicans to have much to do with their overblown impression that overturning "Roe vs Wade" would be the end of civilization. I even had to beg my sister to vote for Bush last year by saying that women would still be able to go to Canada for abortions. I said "it won't be like the borders will be closed or anything. It won't be the end of the world. Meanwhile, we have to stop Al Qaeda and that means voting for Bush." I shouldn't have had to say that.

In Germany, the conservatives won't allow a choice/life debate to sap female votes away from them. The Bundestag agreed to a law that makes abortions illegal after the third month. Period. No more arguing. No more politics.