Princeton Bioethicist says only Know-Nothing Religious Fundamentalists will Value Human Life by 2040

LifeSiteNews ^ | 12/2/05 | Hilary White

[gridlock]

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

Must be all that clean living and FReepin!

[El Sordo]

I wonder if he already has a recipe for Soylent Green.

"Soylent Green, Now with more people!"

[Edit35]

I have a strong belief that Singer, when on his death bed, will suddenly be begging for God's forgiveness.

Why? Anyone so arrogant and certain as him is trying to hide his guilt.

[Centurion2000]

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.

The man is a psychotic, but then again the Romans did much the same thing with their children as well.

Not defending it at all, just pointing out who else did it.

[Lester Moore]

"...about 10% of college undergrads...25% of grad students...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.

Thats a good observation.

They are teaching the young adults now, that will be making the choices for them later. Old, tenured codgers just repeat themselves and have little prospect of generating additional knowledge in the future. hmmmmmmmm

[Cacique]

ping

[Fitzcarraldo]

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.

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[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Singer is just another half-wit trying to shock his way into fame.

[popdonnelly]

I guess I'll have to side with the "know-nothing religious fundamentalists", then.

[Reactionary]

Utilitarianism? Oh. And "he's the greatest philosopher in modern times?"

Utilitarianism was discredited in the 19th century.

[dangus]

He is truly disgusting, but correct (apart from his perjorative terms): We are coming to the day when society is utterly failing at its ability to inform people of morality; only through an intense, personal, religious spirituality was the Western value of human life asserted. The great deeds of Christian leaders established a reservoir of moral social expectations. When that resevoir runs dry, only those who look solely to God will keep lit the flickering flame of truth. And those such people, Sanger regards as "know-nothing religious fundamentalists."

[dangus]

*ahem* Singer.

[dangus]

I just wish Singer would be morally convicted of the evil of kingdomism and foreswear eating anything at all.

[dangus]

Utilitarianism lacks "first principles." Usefulness begs the question, "useful to what end?"

[Ol' Sox]

I don't dislike many people, but Peter Singer is certainly the exception. Elitist bastard, advocating the deaths of others. The world would be so much better off without him. He should realize this and pull his own plug...this evening, preferably.

[The_Reader_David]

I suspect you're right. I've toyed with the idea of finding some pseudo-scholarly Nazi tract and redacting it to remove 'Jew', 'race' and the like, and put in the corresponding terms in the lexicon of the postmodernist multicultural left and trying to do a Sokal with it. After the paper appeared, I'd publish the original and the fake side-by-side, thus completing a reductio ad Hitlerum of the early 21st century left.

[goldstategop]

It makes the Nazis and their perverted science look tame. Good thing I won't be alive to witness it taking hold and for all our sakes, I devoutly hope it doesn't. Peter Singer isn't the "great living philosopher," he's a barbarian and a very effective apostle for Social Darwinism. He's managed to oversee the revival of everything we thought was buried with the demise of Hitler. Its frightening. I guess I am a know-nothing religious fundamentalist when it comes to revering the sacredness of human life and nothing will ever change my beliefs in that respect as long as I live on this earth.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Thumper1960]

It is also true that 'they who can, do; they who cannot, supervise'.

Dead wood abounds, to be sure.

[highlander_UW]

Why doesn't he just come out and say he wants the world to look like Logan's Run?

[SteveMcKing]

Singer, a strict utilitarian

Has the term "utilitarian" been permanently hijacked by this movement? I will take it as Doublespeak, for the moment.

I am a 'utilitarian', but in the very spirit of the word, I am willing to discard the term and adopt a new label if that's what's required.