Posted on 12/02/2005 2:41:36 PM PST by wagglebee
"And we will respect the right of autonomous, competent people to choose when to live and when to die."
Autonomy is a rather slippery concept, given current medical reality. Is a person in a wheelchair autonomous? Arguably not. Paralyzed? Obviously not. Peter Singer would choose death, and sooner rather than later.
Competence? By whose standard? Government bureaucrats and tenured, nihilist professors strike me as being almost entirely incompetent, but euthanasia is not the answer.
When the day comes that Peter Singer elects to end his own life, and I have no doubt in my mind that that is precisely the end that he will meet, our world will be minus one very black soul and all the better for it.
If not, why not?
"And by 2040, I will be 177."
So, you're 143 years old? Congratulations, lol.
A scoffer of which Peter speaks?
I wonder just how many poisoned minds this piece of garbage will leave behind....
He'll have an eternity to regret his philosophy.
If the sancitiy of life means nothing at "both beginning and end", then that begs the question "who will determine the proper time frame" for ending that life? This scum bag better hope he's wrong; he is 59 years old.
At least those "no nothings" wont be roasting in the lake of fire. There will be nothing less then paradise with the King for those "no nothings". How sad for this man that he does not have a relationship with Christ.
I'll say this--at least Dr. Singer is honest enough to admit what 99% of liberals are too afraid to admit.
The Green Mile, no doubt...
Typical lib, do as I say, not as I do...
"I wonder just how many poisoned minds this piece of garbage will leave behind...."
I'd venture a guess of about 10% of college undergrads in general, 25% of grad students in general, and more than half of Political Science, Philosophy and Anthropology majors. There's an odd, disassociative effect going on, because these aforementioned individuals never seem to grasp that their own "utility" can be made suspect quite easily.
I'm ashamed to say that I graduated from this 'institution' that sees fit to pay the execrable Singer to spout this nihilistic, anti-human garbage.
My daughter is a senior with 3 800s on the SATs, National Honor Society, Cum Laude Society and the BSA Venturer Outdoor Bronze Award, besides being a talented violinist and fluent in Spanish.
She may apply to Princeton, just to see if she can get in, but I will eat one of the bronze tigers in front of Nassau Hall before she GOES there. I am heartily ashamed of my alma mater and see no reason to support them with my tuition dollars.
When we've been here ten thousand years
bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we first begun.
I respect Singer for his clarity of thought and refusal to obfuscate the logical conclusions of his utilitarian thought. What I find scary is that his radical conclusions draw almost no notice and no controversy outside prolife activist circles. No wonder he thinks his opposition will collapse in a few years.
"During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments."
Science and technology: It is really the culture of the centralized media, including mass-market entertainment and advertising, that is driving the collapse of traditional ethics. This culture has dominated western society for 50 years but the centralized institutional media are, themselves, doomed and in immediate collapse. The reflexive choice of the wrong side in the current war will hasten this collapse and may result in the media culture's complete and literal extinction. I believe, therefore, that this ethical decline will be arrested and reversed.
Demographics: The growth of third world Christian populations, and the theological conservatism of these populations, is yet another factor that Singer has overlooked.
Who the hell needs a bioethicist?
Good thinking. If she goes there she is likely to end up on the side of the enemy.
"Who the hell needs a bioethicist?"
A lesson I learned while in the corporate world would seem to apply here: the deadwood is always worst in HR, where the hiring and firing decisions are made.
Admittedly that was more than 30 years ago, and I understand that things have gotten a lot worse.
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