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Peter Singer is my hero

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Peegee
, 03-29-2012 at 09:44 PM (942 Views)
....though if you read his stuff and saw his conclusions you might disagree.

Anyway, copy paste of a vomit I did:

[q]peter singer says euthanizing babies who are very likely to be born with severe birth defects can sometimes be justified

naturally there is a backlash as people who have such defects who were not aborted feel he thinks they should be killed. Instead, when confronted PS says they should be treated like regular people and every attempt to improve their life be afforded

I'm now playing with the argument: if you think that abortion is sometimes justified it would be similar for me to retort that you want [people] to be killed, but if you respond back that unaborted babies should be afforded the best living standards possible, it's just as okay as Peter Singer's view[/q]

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  1. Shaibana's Avatar
    i agree with peter.
    humans are just way to sorry for theyre own kind. we want to nurture everything.
    maybe ill scream different if im ever going to have a kid of my own but if i knew my unborn child would have a birth defect i would let i get aborted.
    a defect will make your own life harder and you dont know what kind of quality life that child will have.
    people keep saying you have to give everything a good life etc, but isnt it sometimes better to not let those 'defects' born, and have a healthy child instead?

    humans problem is that there is no Natural Selection. we embrace everything in our world.
    nature is better (and perhaps cruel) in that: if there is something wrong with the baby, either the mother wil abandon it, it will die, or get killed by hunter'
    The right of the fittest!
    Updated 03-29-2012 at 10:07 PM by Shaibana
  2. Jinx's Avatar
    As someone whose job is to work WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABLILITES

    smurf the people who say this. Seriously. We are all people, and all have a purpose, and all deserve the right to live. It doesn't matter if you have this or that disability.

    Where is the line drawn? If a child is born with Cystic Fibrosis, Asthma, a cleft foot, a speech impediment...they are not perfect, therefore they should be killed as well.

    My point is, we all have problems, and the person who thinks that someone with a DD is the problem, is the problem THEMSELVES. It's just another prejudice.
  3. Quindiana Jones's Avatar
    For God's sake, pg. Peter Singer is the guy we use in philosophy to illustrate how not to do things. Pretty much anything he says can be used as an example of bad philosophy.