Pro-Infanticide Prof Awarded Ethics Prize

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[YoungKentuckyConservative]

Princeton's Peter Singer advocates killing disabled after birth.

A controversial professor who advocates killing the disabled up to 28 days after birth, has been honored with an international ethics award.

Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, has been given the 2003 World Technology Award for Ethics by the World Technology Network.

The organization says its members are dedicated to the business and science of emerging technologies such as biotechnology and new energy sources.

"I am delighted to have been selected by my peers as a winner of the 2003 World Technology Award in the ethics category," Singer said in a statement issued by the university.

"The fact that the World Technology Network has an ethics award at all is a recognition of the importance of keeping ethics in mind as we move forward with new technologies in a wide variety of fields, from genetics to computing," he said.

The awards, announced at the World Technology Summit in late June, honor individuals and corporations from 20 technology-related sectors selected by their peers as innovators.

When Singer was hired by Princeton in 1999, a group calling itself Princeton Students Against Infanticide issued a petition in protest, charging the Australian professor "denies the intrinsic moral worth of an entire class of human beings – newborn children."

"His assertion of the appropriateness of killing some humans based on others' decision concerning the "quality" of their lives should strike fear into everyone who cherishes equality and honors human life," the petition said.

The group called the hiring a "blatant violation of Princeton University's policy of respect for people with disabilities."

Singer also is known for launching the modern animal rights movement with his 1975 book "Animal Liberation," which argues against "speciesism."

Singer insists animals should be accorded the same value as humans and should not be discriminated against because they belong to a non-human species.

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

So it is ethical to spare "all" animals, but then murder "unacceptable" humans that don't pass Mr. Singer's litmus test? Interesting and illogical.

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[beaversmom]

Hitler, as we all know was an ethicist himself, would be proud.

[bourbon]

This is absolutely sick. Singer is a madman.

What is the World Technology Network anyway? Does anybody have any info. on them?

[T'wit]

Singer holds common, garden-variety liberal beliefs but shocks us by taking them to their logical conclusion. What he advocates is what's in the dark, God-hating soul of all American liberalism.

[JoJo Gunn]

What isn't noted in this piece concerning animal "rights" is his favoring sex with animals.

[sine_nomine]

Where is PETA when they are needed most?

Princeton could have hired Stan Hauerwas. He is a serious ethicist and pro-life.

[jocon307]

"What isn't noted in this piece concerning animal "rights" is his favoring sex with animals."

Well, at least that would spare the offspring. This man is a lunatic, the mere fact that he is at Princeton, PRINCETON! shows how far the world has descended into the muck since the 1960's.

[mad puppy]

Well, at least that would spare the offspring. This man is a lunatic, the mere fact that he is at Princeton, PRINCETON! shows how far the world has descended into the muck since the 1960's.

While I agree, I think we better accept the fact that it is the US of A that is descending.

[Old Professer]

Scientific ethics has been appropriated by the scientists and is now the sole purview of the "ethicists", subset of scientists whose task it is to discuss conventional ethics and find them wanting.

[First Amendment]

"The fact that the World Technology Network has an ethics award at all is a recognition of the importance of keeping ethics in mind as we move forward with new technologies in a wide variety of fields, from genetics to computing," he said.

We have now entered the Twilight Zone. When an amoral fiend like Singer is honored for his ethics, doublespeak is now the common tongue.

[Old Professer]

To the scientist, a pro-life perspective is a failing generally held by moralists.

[syriacus]

I can't believe this!

BTW, he was on C-Span the other day, talking about the book he's written about his grandparents dying during the holocaust. I think one grandparent survived. His parents had emigrated to Australia.

He must "have (unresolved) issues" about mankind's control of life and death. He wants to have the final say about who dies first.

He's an inmate in charge of the asylum, put in charge by a bunch of nuts. Some of his speaking venues have been very appropriate.

[Dissenting-voices] Fw: Peter Singer/Eva Cox

Tuesday, 18th February, 7:00pm sharp The Valhalla: Cinema 2, 166 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, 2037

Peter Singer author of "Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna" In conversation with Eva Cox

"Pushing Time Away", is a very personal history by the man described in The New Yorker as 'the most influential living philosopher, Australian Peter Singer.

The question of Singer

February 1 2003 Peter Singer will talk to Arnold Zable about his memoir at the Comedy Club, 380 Lygon Street, on February 24. Tickets 9347 6633.

[syriacus]

From their home page:
http://www.wtn.net/new/about/index.html

About THE WORLD TECHNOLOGY NETWORK

The World Technology Network (WTN) is a cross between a global meeting ground, a virtual think tank, and an elite club whose members are all focused on the business or science of bringing important emerging technologies of all types (from biotech to new materials, from IT to new energy sources) into reality. WTN's membership is comprised of over 700 individuals and organisations from over 50 countries judged by their peers to be the most innovative in the technology world.

WTN brings key players together – from the most cutting-edge technologists to the most forward-thinking financiers, from the most conceptual futurists to the most grounded entrepreneurs, from the most insightful science writers to the most savvy marketers, from the most big-picture government officials to the most focused policy analysts, and from the world's leading corporations to the world's newest start-ups – helping to make things happen sooner and better than they might have.

WTN exists to "encourage serendipity" – the happy accidents of colliding ideas and new relationships that cause the biggest breakthroughs for individuals and institutions. WTN works to accomplish its mission through global and regional events for its members (and others) to help make connections amongst them, and to examine the likely implications and possible applications of emerging technologies. WTN also seeks to provide useful information and provoke action through its publications.

The World Technology Awards are presented each year to the outstanding innovators from each sector within the technology arena, both as a way to honour those individuals and as a vetting process to determine the newest WTN members. The Awards are announced each year in a gala ceremony at the close of the annual World Technology Summit.

The World Technology Summit is a global gathering of the WTN membership as well as other delegates. The 2001 World Technology Summit was held in London at Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine and the National Museum of Science & Industry. The 2002 World Technology Summit was held in New York City, in part at United Nations headquarters, and in association with Nasdaq, Cisco Systems, Intel, Novartis, TIME magazine, Red Herring magazine, Science magazine/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Herald Tribune (published with the New York Times and the Washington Post). The 2003 World Technology Summit and Awards will take place June 24th and 25th in San Francisco in association with NASDAQ, Accenture, Microsoft, Genencor, DuPont Textiles & Interiors, TIME, Science/AAAS, Technology Review, and Business 2.0. To register or for more information click here.

In 2002, WTN launched a digitally-distributed magazine as its first publication: World Technology Intelligence. Available at no cost both to WTN members (automatically) and others (by subscription), "Intelligence" contains both news about WTN members' work as well as various features mostly written by WTN members in their own words.

WTN also organises chapter meetings and roundtables in key cities around the world where WTN membership has achieved a local critical mass. WTN is also exploring the development of other online and offline services.

WTN is a community for and of those people, working in and around new technologies, who are creating the future and changing the world.

[bigfootbob]

Didn't they treat Dr. James Watson like a God also since his DNA discovery in 1954 with Francis Crick? He's just as vile, yet held in high regard by the left. Sick!!!

[firebrand]

animals should be accorded the same value as humans and should not be discriminated against because they belong to a non-human species.

So does that mean we can treat you, Professor, the same as a West Nile virus mosquito?

[nightdriver]

"WTN brings key players together – from the most cutting-edge technologists to the most forward-thinking financiers......"

Pretty proud of themselves, aren't they? Gonna be interesting to see how they answer to God one day.

[First Amendment]

People who have decided to be enemies of God - due to their envy - cannot create life, since only He does that. So in their jealousy and anger they are attracted to death and destruction. Like rebellious children, they want to destroy since they cannot create. Even scientists who create this or that do it with the building blocks or energy and natural laws that God has already created.
People like Singer take it to the extreme in theory, people like Hitler put it into practice. The abortion industry and its promoters are other examples.

[Faith]

Woe unto those who call good, "evil, and evil, "good."

[joybelle]

We are doomed.