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

LifeSite ^ | Friday December 2, 2005 | Hilary White

[Mike Darancette]

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.”

And Mr. Singer, what is the worth of your life? What proof can you supply that your life is worth more than that of a hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalist? How dare this crummy hateful peice of $hit intellectualize human infanticide while demanding rights for creatures suitable only for food.

What a waste of a brain.

[AZ_Cowboy]

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.

This is exactly what my thought was when this article first came out. Abortion alone has already impacted our political demographics in ways that do not benefit the left.

Here is a somewhat controversial article that I think has some insight into the matter. It at least shows why Singer and his ilk are wrong.

Baby Gap: How Birthrates Color the Electoral Map

Don't let the eccentric aspects of the author get you in the first few paragraphs.

The gist is that the libs are losing ground at least in part because the fertility rate is higher in red counties than it is in blue counties.

[Gordongekko909]

Funny... I thought that this type of thought, the idea that "inferior" human life is totally disposable for the greater good, had its last breath in 1944. But it looks like it's running strong in the American Left.

[Mike Darancette]

Never heard of him.

He gets off while looking at pictures of the Rwandan Genocide and Hitler Death Camps.

[Auntie Dem]

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.”

He's already wrong. I don't value HIS life NOW.

[Congressman Billybob]

I have a reverse prediction for 2040. By that year, though Peter Singer will be long gone. But his ideas will be alive and well at Princeton University.

As a result, I predict that by 2040, a Princeton diploma will not be worth the paper that it is printed on. And I further predict that my prediction is more likely to come true than his. Wadda y'all think?

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "What Side is the New York Times On?"

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Singer believes humans and animals can have meaningful sexual relationships!

[dk/coro]

"If Singer is right....."

Add the standard 72 Virgins, mate, and I will clamor to join you !!

Deal?

[metmom]

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.

I wonder how he'll feel about euthanasia when it's time for someone to pull the plug on him. Of course, if he's true to what he believes, he'll do it himself long before then and save everyone the trouble. He sure sounds like a leftover from the "God is Dead" movement of the sixties. How many of them predicted that morality as they knew it would be gone in a couple decades; and here we are many years later with that pesky Biblical morality still hanging on tenaciously. Fools.

[WKB]

Baptist Ping

[metmom]

Is a Princeton diploma worth something besides toilet paper now? I think you give it too much time.

[Congressman Billybob]

LOL at your comment. But I'd be prejudiced in answering your question, since I went to Yale.

John / Billybob

[rbg81]

Oh, he forgot to mention that these theories don't apply to his life or that of his liberal, Ivy league collegues. Since they are so much better and wiser, their lives are still very much sacrosanct. Nothing to see here folks, move on.

[StPatricksBreastplate]

Princeton, believe it or not, has at least one insightful Christian philosopher on the same faculty: Robert George. Google him combined with Princeton and you'll be left to wonder how he can manage to walk the same campus as Singer. Having said that, perhaps he's the leaven, the salt, the mustard seed...

[AZ_Cowboy]

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?

Quite the contrary, at least according to my earlier post here (I believe it is Number 22). At least in the United States, the facts point in the opposite direction.

[D.P.Roberts]

Some people are for whatever will keep folks from having to pay social security to all us baby boomers until we're 120.

[balrog666]

Funny... I thought that this type of thought, the idea that "inferior" human life is totally disposable for the greater good, had its last breath in 1944. But it looks like it's running strong in the American Left.

Good ideas never go away.

[Mike Darancette]

Since they are so much better and wiser, their lives are still very much sacrosanct.

Using their own logic what have they produced with the labors of their bodies that would sustain or benefit the physical well being of another human being or themselves for that matter. If the are utilitarian for what are they utilized other than producing green house gasses?

[IrishRainy]

According to the new book by Peter Schweizer, "Do As I Say," Mr. Singer's own mother is suffering from Alzheimer's. Of course, this proponent of euthanasia for sick elderly patients did what could only be expected for a liberal -- he hired a team of health care workers to tend to his mother around the clock.

Fortunately for his mother, he's a good son.

Unfortunately for the rest of humanity, he's a pig.

[dynachrome]

Larry Flynt and his chicken sure did!