Total crap. I just don't want Peter Singer's world view the law of the land.
And by Singer's world view I mean the POV that says "what's right is whatever I, in the flickering recesses of my mind, happen to think is right. Screw thousands of years of tradition, screw thousands of years of history, screw all the religious codes in the history of the world, screw it all. What *I* think should trump it all."
That world view. And people like you and Modern Man just skirt around the fact that it is only moral absolutes that prevent our society from going off the abyss into the world Singer wants. You and Singer have the same world view. He's just taken it to the logical end. (well, more towards the logical end.) You're just skirting about the edge, refusing to look down into the chasm that your belief system will take everyone, while you live off the credit of previous generations who adhered to moral absolutes.
Your rebellious attitude is what blinds you.
Neither do I. What's your point?
You and Singer have the same world view.
Nonsense. If anything, you're closer to Sanger in your love of using the government to attain your moral and ethical ends.
Now you're just being ignorant. Newsflash, but thanks to nanny government, there are oodles of people living off of me. I'm not living off the credit of anyone, even in your pseudo-metaphorical sense.
I don't mind debating, but please LJ, don't pretend like you know me, or how I live. You might be surprised to know that I'm happily married, gave up my career so my children would never see the inside of a daycare, and I even kept my near invalid mother at home during the latter years of her life and took care of her myself.
Now, I don't expect a medal, or even a cookie for the sacrifices. I did what was best for my family. I'm only bringing it up, because it stands in stark contrast to the slanderous image of juvenile adult who lives for instant gratifcation you're intent on painting.