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Princeton Bioethicist says only Know-Nothing Religious Fundamentalists will Value Human Life by 2040
LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/2/05 | Hilary White

Posted on 12/02/2005 2:41:36 PM PST by wagglebee

PRINCETON, December 2, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Infamous advocate of infanticide and the man often credited as the founder of the modern radical animal rights movement, Dr. Peter Singer, was featured in the National Post this week predicting that the traditional ethics of western civilization would shortly be abolished. Singer?s comments appeared first in the September/October edition of the journal Foreign Policy as a speculation on what cherished social institutions would still exist in 35 years.

Singer, a strict utilitarian and the man the New York Times called the ?greatest living philosopher,? says, ?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.?

The title, ?The Sanctity of Life,? can only be meant as ironic coming from a man who has made his fame advocating abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, infanticide up to thirty days after birth and euthanasia for the elderly and infirm.

Singer?s predictions, shocking as they may appear, are well on the way to fruition, however. With the advance of utilitarian philosophy at both ends of human life, first with abortion, then with cloning, IVF, and growing rates of infanticide, and then with the acceptance of euthanasia, Singer has merely given an approving nod to what is verifiably happening all over the world.

He predicts bluntly, ?During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments.?

What Singer refuses to acknowledge is that there is no unavoidable necessity for this collapse. In fact most of it is being forced on nations by activist judges, undemocratic government and other organization actions and ruthless elites, who have constantly distorted facts to suit their agendas.

Technology has been developing since the emergence of organized human culture. In all that time, however, it is not until our own epoch that the suicidal anti-human philosophy has been so broadly accepted. In no other time before the modern age, has it been seriously proposed that the development of technology must necessarily supercede the inherent value of human life.

Ironically, as the implementation of Singer?s philosophical imperatives of drastic population reduction, mass euthanasia programmes, abortion and infanticide advance, the logical outcome will be that only those ?know-nothing religious fundamentalists? he excoriates will survive the anti-human pogroms.

Read the full article:
http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/200509--.htm


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2040; abortion; bioethics; christians; cultureofdeath; eugenics; moralabsolutes; neonazi; petersinger; prolife; trends
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It is absolutely disgusting how the Culture of Death views people.
1 posted on 12/02/2005 2:41:38 PM PST by wagglebee
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To: little jeremiah; NYer; Salvation; Coleus; narses; TonyRo76; Mr. Silverback; cpforlife.org

I am absolutely disgusted by this, but it is necessary to ping.


2 posted on 12/02/2005 2:43:10 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

Days of Noah and Lot?


3 posted on 12/02/2005 2:43:13 PM PST by bahblahbah
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To: wagglebee

If Hitler were alive today, sayig the same things he wrote in Mein Kampf, he'd be an honored professor at an Ivy League university.


4 posted on 12/02/2005 2:44:34 PM PST by Argus
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To: wagglebee

By 2040, this mutt Dr. Peter Singer will be roasting in Hell.


5 posted on 12/02/2005 2:44:55 PM PST by Pittsburg Phil
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To: wagglebee
I wonder how old this nutcake is?

"When the traditional ethic of the sanctity of human life is proven indefensible at both the beginning and end of life, a new ethic will replace it. It will recognize that the concept of a person is distinct from that of a member of the species Homo sapiens, and that it is personhood, not species membership, that is most significant in determining when it is wrong to end a life. We will understand that even if the life of a human organism begins at conception, the life of a person—that is, at a minimum, a being with some level of self-awareness—does not begin so early. And we will respect the right of autonomous, competent people to choose when to live and when to die." - Peter Singer

6 posted on 12/02/2005 2:45:50 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: wagglebee
This is the psycho who believes parents should retain the right to kill their children up to one year after birth, should they decide they don't want the child.

He is also an advocate for human/animal sex.

I did not make the previous stuff up.

7 posted on 12/02/2005 2:45:57 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: wagglebee

Peter Singer also says it's okay to have sex with animals, and to oppose it is practicing "speciesism"


8 posted on 12/02/2005 2:46:21 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: wagglebee

In 1940, I will be 77 years old. I sure hope there are a lot of know-nothing religious fundamentalists around when I am that old so nobody pulls the plug on me.

By the way, have y'all sent in your pledge cards for next year yet?


9 posted on 12/02/2005 2:49:02 PM PST by gridlock (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: wagglebee

Why doesn't he lead by example and off himself first?


10 posted on 12/02/2005 2:49:17 PM PST by sirjohn
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To: wagglebee

link to LifeSite article:

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/dec/05120205.html


11 posted on 12/02/2005 2:50:31 PM PST by VOA
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To: wagglebee
"Singer, a strict utilitarian and the man the New York Times called the greatest living philosopher..."

That clinches it without having to read any further: he's nuts.

12 posted on 12/02/2005 2:50:42 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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In 1940, I will be 77 years old.

WOW!!!! So you're what 142 now, what's your secret? ={)

13 posted on 12/02/2005 2:51:20 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: VOA; Admin Moderator; Sidebar Moderator

Can you fix the link please?


14 posted on 12/02/2005 2:52:31 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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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.

The old secularization thesis. Somehow I doubt the world will grow more and more like the campus of Princeton University. Considering the general aversion of secularists to having babies, it'll likely look more like Mecca or the streets of Mexico City on December 12.

Or maybe Singer and his fellow travelers will just clone themselves seven hundred thousand times. There's a happy thought.

15 posted on 12/02/2005 2:53:04 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (Hoc ad delectationem stultorum scriptus est)
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To: gridlock

"In 1940 I will be 77 years old"......you are 142 years old now........tell us your secret!


16 posted on 12/02/2005 2:54:36 PM PST by Doctor Don
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To: 45Auto
He was born in 1946.

Singer's Bio from the International Vegetarian Union (Barf Alert!)

17 posted on 12/02/2005 2:54:40 PM PST by Sociopathocracy (Real martinis do not contain vodka, fruit juice or umbrellas.)
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To: 45Auto
How, if at all, does this differ from the justification the Nazis for the extermination of the untermunchen?
18 posted on 12/02/2005 2:56:29 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: infidel29

And by 2040, I will be 177. Needless to say I am worried about the availablility of long-term care...


19 posted on 12/02/2005 2:56:51 PM PST by gridlock (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: gridlock

LOL...Merry Christmas.


20 posted on 12/02/2005 2:59:10 PM PST by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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