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Princeton Bioethicist says only “Know-Nothing Religious Fundamentalists” will Value Human Life by 20
LifeSite ^ | Friday December 2, 2005 | Hilary White

Posted on 12/02/2005 6:21:53 PM PST by nickcarraway

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


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KEYWORDS: 2040; abortion; bioethics; deathcult; euthanasia; humanlife; infanticide; petersinger; population; princeton; religion; singer; trends; utilitarianism
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To: nickcarraway
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.

21 posted on 12/02/2005 6:42:26 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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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.

22 posted on 12/02/2005 6:42:31 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

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.


23 posted on 12/02/2005 6:42:36 PM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: SIDENET
Never heard of him.

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

24 posted on 12/02/2005 6:44:50 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: nickcarraway
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.

25 posted on 12/02/2005 6:45:07 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: nickcarraway
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?"

26 posted on 12/02/2005 6:45:24 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
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To: nickcarraway
Singer believes humans and animals can have meaningful sexual relationships!
27 posted on 12/02/2005 6:46:02 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: Our man in washington

"If Singer is right....."

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

Deal?


28 posted on 12/02/2005 6:46:08 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: nickcarraway
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.
29 posted on 12/02/2005 6:51:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: nickcarraway; tutstar; Sybeck1; pamlet; aumrl; mariabush; nmh; Ingtar; Blogger; ...

Baptist Ping


30 posted on 12/02/2005 6:53:16 PM PST by WKB (If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
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To: Congressman Billybob

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


31 posted on 12/02/2005 6:53:21 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
LOL at your comment. But I'd be prejudiced in answering your question, since I went to Yale.

John / Billybob
32 posted on 12/02/2005 6:55:41 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
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To: Mike Darancette

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.


33 posted on 12/02/2005 6:58:30 PM PST by rbg81
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To: metmom

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...


34 posted on 12/02/2005 7:05:38 PM PST by StPatricksBreastplate
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To: 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?

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.

35 posted on 12/02/2005 7:06:38 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: nickcarraway

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


36 posted on 12/02/2005 7:08:26 PM PST by D.P.Roberts
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To: 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.

Good ideas never go away.

37 posted on 12/02/2005 7:09:19 PM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: rbg81
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?

38 posted on 12/02/2005 7:11:27 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: metmom
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.

39 posted on 12/02/2005 7:20:00 PM PST by IrishRainy
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

Larry Flynt and his chicken sure did!


40 posted on 12/02/2005 7:26:09 PM PST by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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