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Altruistic Infanticide
PhilanthropyDaily.com ^ | 8/11/2014 | Scott Walter

Posted on 08/11/2014 11:55:26 AM PDT by Edmunds mom

“Earnestness is stupidity sent to college,” quoth the wise and well-traveled wit P.J. O’Rourke. The line would seem to fit many adherents of the Effective Altruism movement, a trendy subset of the philanthropy world....

The movement’s intellectual guru, Peter Singer [is] best known for his support of infanticide, bestiality (and other forms of “animal liberation”), and necrophilia (as long as it’s consensual)....

[There is a] near-perfect parallel between (1) a passage in Singer’s Practical Ethics that justifies killing a disabled infant in hopes of someday having another child “with better prospects of a happy life,” and (2) a historical account of the first known German government-approved infanticide in 1939, justified for exactly the same reason. The parents of the German infant explained how things looked to them when they discussed the killing of their child with Hitler’s personal physician:

"we wouldn’t have to suffer from this terrible misfortune because the Führer had granted us the mercy killing of our son. Later, we could have other children, handsome and healthy, of whom the Reich could be proud."

Arguably, the Germans in this instance were less extreme than Singer. The German child suffered blindness and the lack of an arm and a leg; Singer’s hypothetical victim only suffers from hemophilia. In both cases, the ethical principle is all too simple. As Singer concludes in his textbook:

"When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed."

Apparently happiness can be measured as easily as, say, pounds of sugar, and persons are as interchangeable as grains of sand.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: altruism; infanticide; moralabsolutes; petersinger; philanthropy
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Princeton's notorious "philosopher" Peter Singer has a new enthusiasm: telling people how to give their money to charity. And just as most of us aren't smart enough to favor infanticide, the way Singer does, we also aren't smart enough to give our money away as humanely as Singer wants.
1 posted on 08/11/2014 11:55:26 AM PDT by Edmunds mom
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To: Edmunds mom

Sure fond of Philanthropy Daily, aren’t you?

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:edmundsmom/index?tab=articles

Why is that?


2 posted on 08/11/2014 11:57:38 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Edmunds mom

Is this parasite Peter Singer not yet dead? Isn’t it time for this ‘ethicist’ to get his eternal reward for a life well lead?


3 posted on 08/11/2014 12:03:49 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: humblegunner; Edmunds mom

WOW....Edmunds mom posted a whole 2 articles from that blog since the beginning of the year! The shame!


4 posted on 08/11/2014 12:04:38 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: humblegunner

Oops excuse me....make that 4 articles. That’s absolute abuse -NOT!!!


5 posted on 08/11/2014 12:05:45 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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You don’t think it curious that no other sources are posted?

Not even a little bit?


6 posted on 08/11/2014 12:07:40 PM PDT by humblegunner
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Not a problem to me....actually I found all of the articles interesting! How about how many times you've posted links to the Michael Berry Show? Or is that different? Different people find different things pertinent.

That's what's great about Free Republic. I had never heard of that site before today and probably never would had Edmunds mom not posted from there.

7 posted on 08/11/2014 12:13:07 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: Edmunds mom
necrophilia (as long as it’s consensual)....

How does that work?

8 posted on 08/11/2014 12:13:41 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Edmunds mom; Morgana; metmom

Killing is Happiness

Death is Happiness

This is evil


9 posted on 08/11/2014 12:19:54 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Slyfox

lolz


10 posted on 08/11/2014 12:20:50 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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My my, what ‘religion’ trying to dominate the world does that sound like?


11 posted on 08/11/2014 12:28:07 PM PDT by ClearBlueSky (When anyone says its not about Islam...it's about Islam. That death cult must be eradicated.)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
I found all of the articles interesting!

That isn't the point.

Point is this poster is consistently redirecting Free Republic traffic offsite.

To a single specific source.

And you don't find that to be the least bit curious?

12 posted on 08/11/2014 12:31:29 PM PDT by humblegunner
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Maybe it’s all in the will, maybe it is based on statements made while living. Perhaps Peter Singer’s body can be donated to some of his more enthusiastic followers.


13 posted on 08/11/2014 12:31:40 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Yeah, I am sure that Dahmer got consent first.


14 posted on 08/11/2014 12:33:21 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Edmunds mom

Where are the Princeton alumni? Why haven’t they demanded this psychopath be sent packing back to Australia? During a saner time this man would have been shunned by everyone. He would have never dared voice his twisted opinions.


15 posted on 08/11/2014 12:36:39 PM PDT by attiladhun2 (The Free World has a new leader--his name is Benjamin Netanyahu)
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Where are the Princeton alumni?
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Princeton is "A" junkyard of intellectual thought..


16 posted on 08/11/2014 12:50:42 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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necrophilia (as long as it’s consensual)....

"How does that work?"

Your post conjured up in my mind a variation on that old joke that asks if a man does something and there is no woman to witness it, is he still wrong?:

If a man has P.I.V.* sex with a female corpse, and the woman is not aware of it, is it still rape?

*The "I" stands for "in," and the "P" and "V" for male and female sex organs (and, yes, I had to look it up, too). Radical feminists think that all P.I.V. sex is rape, even if it is consensual. Please don't reply asking me to explain that. I can't.

There was a FR article about this in the last few days.

17 posted on 08/11/2014 1:04:04 PM PDT by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got eight? NRA Life Member])
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To: GeronL; Edmunds mom; metmom

People are evil.


18 posted on 08/11/2014 1:18:21 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: rmh47

Did you ever think in your wildest imagination that we would have to be concerned about necrophilia being pushed as a mainstream activity?


19 posted on 08/11/2014 1:27:35 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: humblegunner
Point is this poster is consistently redirecting Free Republic traffic offsite. To a single specific source.

Certainly fewer times than this:

The Michael Berry Show thread, 7/8/2013

7/8/2013, 8:50:17 AM · by humblegunner · 9 replies
The Michael Berry Show ^ | 7/8/2013 | Michael Berry
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20 posted on 08/11/2014 7:39:13 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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