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
I believe that God always has a witness even in the darkest places so that men are without excuse. I should think to pray for men and women in these tough places; they must feel like Daniel.
Funny how all their rules apply to everyone but themselves.
"Utilitarian" is a Swiss army knife. Used as it is in this article, it should be replaced with "fool"
I'll match your Robert George with a Nicholas Wolterstorff. Despite its current apostasy it is founded on True Religon.
Really overpriced toilet paper. Princeton is a private university.
AND?
Absurd... happiness is abstract, its measurement is more meaningless, and the "greatest number" can all bite me.
In the interest of avoiding confusion, I shall not speak the U-word from now on.
AND?... If you think that living thru the first death is finality then you will really find out in the second death that there is no finality to your death.
AND?... If you think that living thru the first death is finality then you will really find out in the second death that there is no finality to your death.
I knew that!!
That's OK, Singer's ego can't be fit into an expanding super nova, let alone his cranium. At least the title you've presented is better comprehended than his dribble. Good read.
Singer is what evil looks like.
Read between the lines, everybody - the Leftists are gearing up for another Stalinist purge.
As if this clown will even be alive in 2040, eh? Any stupid sod can make a prediction whose outcome he or she will not live to see...sheesh.
Many before him have predicted the demise of Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethic. They are gone, and Christianity continues to thrive - despite the assaults!
Singer, Sanger, grim reapers, grim rapers of life.
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