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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
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."

I disagree vehemently with him, but I'm willing to give the idea a chance, provided we start with him as a test case and then put the idea on hold for a bit while we ponder the issue some more.
81 posted on 12/03/2005 8:22:32 AM PST by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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To: Rastus; Porterville
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.

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

Dr. Freud... white courtesy phone.

82 posted on 12/03/2005 8:24:42 AM PST by ItsForTheChildren (Take back the press!)
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To: Rastus
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.

A real Michael Jackson fan...

83 posted on 12/03/2005 8:43:08 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: elcid1970

Can we throw in a 'repeatedly' in there somewhere?


84 posted on 12/03/2005 8:44:07 AM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Everyone else suffers from the "observer problem"

Yup. This is where I came in (1936). I have, indeed, heard it all before, and although I may suffer as much as anyone from the 'Observer Problem', it's not so much for me not know what's coming next.

85 posted on 12/03/2005 8:56:13 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: nickcarraway
the man the New York Times called the “greatest living philosopher,”

The sophomoric utilitarian? This would be funny if it wasn't so frightening.

86 posted on 12/03/2005 8:59:07 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan

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


I keep reading by the evolutionists that "ID" should be taught in philosophy classes, I think I know why, as apparently this guy is what philosophy classes represent.


87 posted on 12/03/2005 9:09:22 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

I'm going to assume that it was sarcasm.


88 posted on 12/03/2005 11:26:47 AM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: SteveMcKing
In the interest of avoiding confusion, I shall not speak the U-word from now on.

Lol...I know how you feel. So many words have been politicized you need a lawyer to tell you what you can say.
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89 posted on 12/03/2005 5:08:36 PM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: Just mythoughts

I think we all know what happened. A certain constituency on here will see the "know-nothing religious fundamentalists" bit and feel obligated to defend the guy no matter what. Rhetoric like that makes them weak in the knees.


90 posted on 12/03/2005 6:08:01 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: Gordongekko909

I wouldn't if I were you. Just a bit of friendly advice.


91 posted on 12/03/2005 6:12:38 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: AZ_Cowboy

Yes, funny thing about that word fundamentalists it is not limited to a specific mindset.



92 posted on 12/03/2005 6:26:41 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

Exactly right. It isn't used that way on here, however.

I tend to let it go, though. I figure that if it helps them with their problems, I just might be the thing that stops them from going nuts in the Post Office. If it makes them feel good to bring down others, so be it.


93 posted on 12/03/2005 6:58:41 PM PST by AZ_Cowboy ("Be ever vigilant, for you know not when the master is coming")
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To: Rastus

He has to be "a big advocate of bestiality" - otherwise he has not ancestors. :)


94 posted on 12/03/2005 7:12:37 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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To: YHAOS

Thank you for your insights!


95 posted on 12/03/2005 10:09:38 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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