Thursday, December 02, 2004
Peter Singer - Monster philosopher
Marvin Olasky discusses an interview with "the most influential philosopher alive". The answers Singer provides give a vision of a world more horrifying than the worst image of hell:
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If the 21st century becomes a Singer century, we will also see legal infanticide of born children who are ill or who have ill older siblings in need of their body parts.
Question: What about parents conceiving and giving birth to a child specifically to kill him, take his organs and transplant them into their ill older children? Singer: "It's difficult to warm to parents who can take such a detached view, (but) they're not doing something really wrong in itself." Is anything wrong with a society in which children are bred for spare parts on a massive scale? "No."
