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To: presidio9
"Peter Singer"

Isn't he the guy who favors legalized bestiality?

From his Wiki entry:

"He favors a 'journey' model of life, which measures the wrongness of taking a life by the degree to which doing so frustrates a life journey's goals. So taking a life is less wrong at the beginning, when no goals have been set, and at the end, when the goals have either been met or are unlikely to be accomplished. The journey model is tolerant of some frustrated desire, explains why persons who have embarked on their journeys are not replaceable, and accounts for why it is wrong to bring a miserable life into existence. Although sentience puts a being within the sphere of equal consideration of interests, only a personal interest in continuing to live brings the journey model into play. This model also explains the priority that Singer attaches to interests over trivial desires and pleasures. For instance, one has an interest in food, but not in the pleasures of the palate that might distinguish eating steak from eating tofu, because nutrition is instrumental to many goals in one's life journey, whereas the desire for meat is not and is therefore trumped by the interest of animals in avoiding the miseries of factory farming."

What a fruit loop.

11 posted on 06/27/2006 10:01:08 AM PDT by jjm2111 (http://www.purveryors-of-truth.blogspot.com)
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To: jjm2111

Hey, fruit loops serve a valid purpose in lives. Maybe apes like them too.


21 posted on 06/27/2006 12:25:42 PM PDT by hdstmf
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To: jjm2111

Hey, now that's an insult to Fruit Loops!


26 posted on 06/27/2006 1:16:58 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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