Princeton Bioethicist says only “Know-Nothing Religious Fundamentalists” will Value Human Life by 20

LifeSite ^ | Friday December 2, 2005 | Hilary White

[nickcarraway]

I altered the title- only because the full title would not fit in its full form.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Obadiah]

Yeah, sure dude, there is no God. "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."

[highlander_UW]

Looks like a duplicate of: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532974/posts?page=59#59

[SIDENET]

the man the New York Times called the “greatest living philosopher,”

Never heard of him.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

the logical outcome will be that only those “know-nothing religious fundamentalists” he excoriates will survive the anti-human pogroms.

Yep, and then 'our kind' will pick up the pieces after all the needless death and destruction and the lesson will finally have been learned.

[Rastus]

You're lucky. He's a monster. He advocates killing children up to a certain age if the parents decide they don't want them. He also is a big advocate of bestiality.

[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.

[Steely Tom]

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.”

Wow. No one has ever predicted anything like that before. What an original thinker. Well, original for someone who's knowledge of history extends back all the way to 1978.

And I thought this bozo was a "professor of Philosophy." He seems to think he's the Oracle of Mercer County.

We'll see which collapses first: human nature, or Peter Singer.

[DoughtyOne]

Speaking of rumps, this guy is a classic!

[Alexander Rubin]

He's a terrible, terrible man. He may be right, but this is an evil that must be fought.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

... predicting that the traditional ethics of western civilization would shortly be abolished.

The first good to come of it will be that someone will murder Singer.

[randog]

What if I declare Mr. Singer to have no utility--can we then send him to the Soylent factory?

[narses]

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[Porterville]

hmmm, what do you know? A wack job at at university making doe off the tax payers.

[Our man in washington]

I'll be 74 in 2040, if God should grant me so long a life.

If Singer is right, I hope I'm surrounded by know-nothing religious fundamentalists at that point.

[impatient]

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

This is the first I've heard of it. I thought it meant maximizing human happiness. Now it seems to mean anti-human; or defining one to be human only if a liberal says they are.

[SIDENET]

You're lucky. He's a monster. He advocates killing children up to a certain age if the parents decide they don't want them. He also is a big advocate of bestiality.

No wonder the NYT likes this guy.

[Liberty1970]

The cute thing about secular fundamentalists like Singer is that they are always bleating about "Science" and then failing to defend their beliefs scientifically. Does he have data showing a marked decrease in the number of people who value life? Is the pro-life movement losing steam and influence?

For that matter, what objective basis does the NYT have for declaring Singer a great philosopher, as opposed, to, say, a driveling fool? Compared to the great philosophers of history, is anyone going to remember this guy in a hundred years? (If so, I predict it will be the same way they remember Neitzsche - as a precursor to Hitler.)