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Peter Singer: I think if we are to discuss such issues at all, I need to make it clear that I do not share your assumptions about God, or a Creator. I do not believe that there is such a being. I accept a scientific view of the origins of the world, and of life, so I do not think there is a god who has bestowed rights on any beings.

It is repulsive that an Iranian Muslim has a better grasp of God-given rights than a Princeton professor.

1 posted on 04/09/2012 4:19:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 04/09/2012 4:21:28 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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We definitely do need more humans whose minds have been damaged by drugs.


3 posted on 04/09/2012 4:22:29 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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loan this guy a gun with one bullet.


4 posted on 04/09/2012 4:22:40 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits is the only way to save this country.)
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5 posted on 04/09/2012 4:23:24 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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“His 1975 book “Animal Liberation” is considered to be the hallmark of animal liberation movement.”

Nope, no whackjobs here.

None at all.


6 posted on 04/09/2012 4:23:40 PM PDT by MarineDad (Wherever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits)
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Peter,

We each of us have the ability to reduce the population by one.

You go first.


7 posted on 04/09/2012 4:24:15 PM PDT by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’ “. Singer is a fool.


9 posted on 04/09/2012 4:29:55 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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I don't think we need Peter Singer on this planet.

Who's with me?

10 posted on 04/09/2012 4:30:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
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Singer is an evil, evil man. I won’t say more than that.


11 posted on 04/09/2012 4:30:53 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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“I do not think we need more human beings on this planet.”

Yet he refuses to take the next logical step and end his own existence... Wonder why?


12 posted on 04/09/2012 4:33:48 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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The distinguished professor cannot possibly remove himself from the earth. He’s more equal, you see.

Reducing the population is our job, because we are less equal.


13 posted on 04/09/2012 4:35:20 PM PDT by lurk
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Through his moral deficiencies, Peter Singer defeats his own second-rate intellect.

That his intellect is second-rate is demonstrated, among other things, by the fact that his assertions based on faith are the very means by which he claims his world view is based exclusively on science.


14 posted on 04/09/2012 4:36:41 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, R. Zacharias, Adrian Rogers, and others.)
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If he really believes that there are too many humans, he should walk the walk and off himself. For some reason he’s still around making stupid pronouncements.

My stock answer to anyone who thinks people should die off is, “you first.” What makes you so special?

He is probably a member of VHEMT (Voluntary Human Extinction Movement), but, like a liberal, he wants someone else to carry his water.


16 posted on 04/09/2012 4:42:16 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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I do not think we need more human beings on this planet.

Peter, if you really think that, then go stick your head in the mouth of a saltwater crocodile.

18 posted on 04/09/2012 4:45:31 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Time for brokered convention)
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Just another uninteresting, predictable as clockwork leftist. This is why I like guys like Hayek and Sowell. Their ideas are so more novel, so much more full of pleasant surprises and unexpected angles. I wonder if leftwingers even realize how dull their stupid philosophy is.


19 posted on 04/09/2012 4:52:45 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Given his viscoelastic logic, his views on morality and how he devalues human life, what logical protest does he have if I put a gun to his head to end his life?


20 posted on 04/09/2012 4:58:05 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood)
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Put your money where your mouth is Peter.

Oh, he just wants other people to die.

Let’s call him “Tricky Pete”. He’s so clever.


23 posted on 04/09/2012 5:23:33 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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If you think about it, planet Earth “needs” no lifeforms on it at all. It could be an utterly lifeless rock in space.

I think the professor’s problem is that he uses religious axioms, that is, that humans are in some way “special”, separate and distinct from animals; and that humans can do “good” or “bad”, mostly “bad”.

But from that jumping off place, he tries to wax in pseudo-science. That is, the assumption that humans are “unnatural”, that they are like an invasive species. But he neglects the scientific principles of natural selection, that if humans are “bad” or “wrong”, nature would have long ago eliminated them as a species.

So the truth is that he sees the “badness” or “wrongness” in himself. That he, as an individual, is out of place in the natural world. That he is a failure so should be eliminated by natural selection.

Yet he wants to extrapolate this to everyone else.

This shows the twisted neuroses of such people. They feel pain and self hatred, the inferiority and artificiality of themselves. They feel their lives are meaningless, and as persons they are worthless.

And they have this weird notion that if they could just hurt other people, or tear them down in some way, it would somehow lessen their own pain and feelings of despair.


24 posted on 04/09/2012 6:23:47 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("It is already like a government job," he said, "but with goats." -- Iranian goat smuggler)
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Well, Mr. Singer, since there is, in your view, no authoritative source for an inate right to life (and all the other rights that flow from that first basic right) and you think there are already more than enough humans on the planet, why don’t you do the environment a favor and leave permanently...and take as many of your supporters as you can with you when you do go. Go live with...oh, say ... the Rayleans. They’ll probably make room for you in that spaceship hiding behind Hailey’s Comet.

Oh, and don’t come back.


25 posted on 04/09/2012 6:30:19 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined Effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)
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Ol’ Pete will surely be around since he is hardly human.


26 posted on 04/09/2012 7:08:20 PM PDT by x1stcav (There's a bunch of us out here spoiling for a fight.)
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