Posted on 08/20/2014 6:55:16 AM PDT by wagglebee
I think it is time to start calling Peter Singer Professor Death.
The Princeton moral philosopheran oxymoron in his caseis the worlds foremost proponent of infanticide. He usually uses examples of disabled babies, but the reason he believes they can be killed is that they are supposedly not persons. Thus, Singer has refused to state that killing a baby because she was ugly would be wrong.
Professor Death also supports euthanasia, both voluntary and non voluntary against ill human non-persons, such as Alzheimers patients.
He has also stated that cognitively devastated people should have been used in developing the hepatitis vaccines instead of chimpanzees. Not surprisingly, he advocates duty-to-die health care rationing based on quality of life invidious discrimination.
Professor Death has come to the defense of his colleague in nihilism, Australias Doctor Death, Phillip Nitschke, who favors suicide availability for troubled teenagers and the selling of suicide pills in super markets.
Nitschke has had his medical license suspended for death coaching, that is, giving active encouragement and how-to instructions to suicidal people. One such person was a suspected murderer, who received suicide encouragement through Nitschkes organization, learned how to get the drugs, and did the deed.
Nitschkes ghoulish suicide proselytizing is completely inconsistent with his role as a licensed medical doctor. But Professor Death thinks Dr. Deaths license should not have been taken because both death colleagues believe in the dangerous concept of rational suicide. From The Age story:
I think suicide can be rational in the absence of terminal illness and I think I could find you dozens or hundreds of philosophers who would think that
All bow to the philosophers!
Back to Singer
I think if you know you are going to spend the next 20 years in prison, suicide is a rational option not for everybody, but for some people, he said, referring to the case of Nigel Brayley, a Perth man who communicated with Dr Nitschke before taking his own life while he was being investigated over his wifes death.
This is Kevorkianland: K believed that anyone who wanted to die should be able to attend a clinic for that purpose. Apparently, Singer agrees:
In response to concerns about depressed people accessing Exit International information, Professor Singer said: I think the solution to that is to legalise voluntary euthanasia and restrict it to medical practitioners, and then Philip wont have to do this I think he feels he is a crusader against a law that unnecessarily restricts peoples right to die.
Who cares what he feels? The question is whether his actions are consistent with possessing a medical license under Australian law.
But note, Singer believes that a man suspected of murder should be able to go to a doctor to be killed to avoid prison.
We dont know why Nitschke was suspended. But he has sold suicide bags to people he knew to be self-destructive, which was outlawed in response to my advocacy against N in Australia in 2001.
He told people how to access poison for suicide. He lied in the media about a woman who announced she was going to commit suicide under his tutelage, claiming she had terminal cancer, when she didnt. He has encouraged and furthered the suicides of who knows how many people over the years.
Singer might think that is fine. He may think doctors should be allowed to kill. But at least as things are now, when Nitschke committed his ghoulish suicide promotion, it sure isnt consistent with the practice of ethical medicine.
LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.
So what do you propose? A Federal law outlawing abortion? There's no Federal Law against murder (apart from Federal employees), we leave most laws of life and property up to the states. If you dislike that, work to amend the Constitution. Sometimes it seems to me that both sides of the aisle claim to support the Constitution, as long as it serves their interests (ACLU liberals support the 4th and 5th but not the 2d and 10th, "conservatives" support the 2d while being very selective of what parts of the 10th they like, and both are very selective about what parts of the 1st amendment they support)
So, you think that making cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine even more available will make society "safer"?
Does legalizing alcohol make society safer from being killed or maimed by drunk drivers, or families safe from being shattered by alcoholism? In spite of all this, we (rightly) value liberty more than state-enforced "safety" and reject prohibition (or at least enough sense to recognize that enriching organized crime cartels doesn't make our streets any safer either). The same arguments apply to illicit drugs. They're unhealthy. They ruin lives. So does alcohol. The difference is....???
Great, but believe that two people of the same gender should be allowed to marry each other? You rejected a concept, what do you think the LAW should be?
I think that I made it clear that the government should not recognize homosexual marriage.
Did Terri Schiavo volunteer to die? No.
Did Lauren Richardson volunteer to die? No.
Sun Hudson? Haleigh Poutre? Scott Thomas? Etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
When you advocate “voluntary” euthanasia, that is just a euphemism for forced euthanasia, wrapped up in a pretty package.
However, NO STATE has ever legalized murder; were they to do so, the 14th Amendment would certainly apply.
We had a war the last time states were allowed to decide personhood.
If you dislike that, work to amend the Constitution. Sometimes it seems to me that both sides of the aisle claim to support the Constitution, as long as it serves their interests (ACLU liberals support the 4th and 5th but not the 2d and 10th, "conservatives" support the 2d while being very selective of what parts of the 10th they like, and both are very selective about what parts of the 1st amendment they support)
You do a great job at hitting all of the libertarian taking points, but you avoid actually answering my questions.
Do you believe that unborn children have the same constitutional rights as any other person? YES or NO.
And by the way, libertarian devotion to a certain part of the 10 Amendment makes them the ultimate statists.
And how could I forget Baby Knauer? Did he/she volunteer?
Peter Singer is a special kind of evil
I see the difference, but my question is why should one be right when the other is wrong.
In studying for his Ph.D., who did this monster study under? Dr. Mengele? Singer would make an excellent Nazi.
government authorized death, death by any means, spirals out of control....maybe the tramps down by the railway station should be next....or the unemployed....never an end to government authorized death.....that is my point!
Not saying either is right or wrong, but voluntary vs. coerced should at least be a factor in the arguments on the subject.
Interesting that he could not euthanize his own demented mother.
Is he still teaching Ethics at Princeton.
“Dear” Dr. Death and Prof. Death.
Since you are both so enamored with suicide, with all due respect, I recommend that
you both try it. It is a one-way ticket to Hell, so you will find yourselves right at home.
IOW, go to Hell, you butchering monsters.
Professor Death: Peter Singer Says Criminals Should Have Euthanasia Option to Avoid Prison
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B212 to ek_hornbeck
government authorized death, death by any means, spirals out of control....maybe the tramps down by the railway station should be next....or the unemployed....never an end to government authorized death.....that is my point!
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Thanks for the ping!
I was under the impression that I had already answered them.
I'll make it easier for you:
Do you believe that unborn children have the same constitutional rights as any other person? YES or NO.
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