All I can say to some of Singer's statements...yuk
It time that public money is used to promote bablance.
A required course at my daughter's college (Global Justice) features this man. Last year, he actually spoke on campus. This year, Monday of this week in fact, they were forced to watch a video of an interview with him. My daughter's disgust was beyond words. This requirement, more than any other factor, has shown her the bias in today's higher eduction.
I am sure we can find people who need his kidneys, heart, lungs, and eyes. Why doesn't he practice what he preaches and farm his organs out? Interesting how the living are always the ones who want to kill someone else and take something.
Relativism and Sartre wrapped in contemporary clothing.
Intellectuals don't exist unless you want them to and, whenever I hear the word "professor" I always reach for my "Buy 'em for what they're worth, sell 'em for what they think they're worth" Table.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Singer is definitely an evil person. It would be good to have an indepth article about his beliefs, his ideas of right and wrong, for better understanding of him and those he influences. Singer is obviously an avowed atheist.
Parents - DON'T send your kids to Princeton!
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“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” C. S. Lewis
Conservatives who sneer at ivory tower elitists forget that said ivory tower is the control tower for our society. I would argue that the limited degree of success that conservative and pro-market ideas have experienced in public policy have been achieved through neo-conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute, and even libertarian think tanks like the Cato Institute. Despite these successes, conservatives have not carried the struggle into the academic arena. Except for a few, relatively unknown colleges like Hillsdale in Michigan or Grove City in Pennsylvania, there is no serious challenge to the liberal and secular humanist death grip over the prestigious private and state run universities. The lure of these schools attracts many of the "best and brightest" from traditionally Christian and culturally and politically conservative families just as the "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" popular culture destroys some of the less intelligent or upright from such families.
Restoration of the American republic is dependent in the long run upon the development of an elite that can take on the current ruling class. Talk radio, the Internet, alternative schooling (home school and private), and evangelical congregations have done some good. But the agenda of restoration must be continued in other arenas.
This line of thought was used by supporters of Eugenics, as well as NAZI "medical researchers" like Dr Mengele. It's nice to know that Princeton University has this professor of "ethics."
Mark
Singer is giving a talk at the philosophy dept at Rutgers (where I'm a grad student) right at this very moment. I chose not to attend because I'm too disgusted with the man. To paraphrase GEM Anscombe, if someone needs a rational argument to convince them that infanticide is wrong, I do not wish to debate with him, for he shows a corrupt mind.
Singer is of the belief that parents should be able to do away with their childern up to a certain age (6 months I believe) should they feel burdened by them.
I'm not kidding. The precise amount of time he prescribes I don't have at my finger ttips, but I suspect I'm on the low side in my encapsulation.
Now, in spite of all this post modernism ad nauseum that we hear from Singer, the fact is, most would call him a looney for the idea I just encapsulated above. Hell, the biggest liberals I know wouldn't accept this . So why would he espouse such views? Sure, it's reasonable to assume that he's just another lefty, but his theories have long struck me as the product of a penchant for irony; in other words, I often wonder if Singer isn't simply taking current values to their ultimate end. Buckley once wrote, in a short treatise against abortion, that he had yet to find any evidence (paraphrasing) that there is anything tangibly different between an infant in the womb 3 weeks prior to birth and one who was 3 weeks out of birth. Singer's theory that parents should bbe able to terminate their children within a "reasonable" amount of time after birth suggests the same thing as the Buckley theory.
In short, so callous is Singer's theory that I can't help but think he's simply being ironic.
If Singer were a Conservative, he could very well be making our point with these hair brained theories of his:" You think late term abortion is okay? hell, why not kill em after birth?" That's where post modern theory is heading afterall. Are you sure you want to board this train?
Years from now, I won't be surprised if Singer either writes memoirs for posthumous publication afterr hhis death, or comes clean to the effect that he lets the world know he's been playing their liberal sensibilities to the hilt.
Peter Singer is probably one of, if not the, most darkened souls in America...
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Wasn't he with the original Weavers...I loved it when they sang, "If I Had a Hammer."
People reject G-D as the only source of morality will ultimately have no morals at all.