Peter Singer on Stem Cells and Cloning
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Love his mind.
livingdeadgrl18 1 month ago
Let's be clear, though, Singer does not pin everything just on being capable of conceiving of their life as a narrative or having hopes for the future, it's just one of the criterion he uses. It's highly likely, in his view, that it may be ethically wrong to kill a fetus or infant, but it's not always morally culpable and it's certainly not equivalent to killing a person. (i.e. one who has all the qualities of person-hood.)
dan46and2 8 months ago
@danielfact OK, thanks, I thought it might be something along those lines.
lukebeevers93 8 months ago
@lukebeevers93 He does not think killing a foetus is wrong (because it has no sense of existing over time) if the parents decide that it should die. The 'foetus' is not 'the kind of being who can see that he or she actually has a life -- that is, can see that he or she is the same being who exists now, who existed in the past, and who will exist in the future', so in his view (preference utilitarianism) it is not wrong to end its life.
danielfact 8 months ago
@danielfact So he still thinks its wrong to kill a foetus, just "less wrong", so to speak?
lukebeevers93 8 months ago
@lukebeevers93 Peter Singer thinks that having a 'sense of their own existence over time' is key when it comes to the question of taking life. (He uses the term "person" to refer to a being who is capable of anticipating the future, of having wants and desires for the future. He writes 'I think that it is generally a greater wrong to kill such a being than it is to kill a being that has no sense of existing over time.')
danielfact 8 months ago
OK, people, since I'm the first to comment on this video, I will ask a pertinent question. What exactly are these characteristics which give a being a right to life? Singer does not appear to define or attempt to define them. If someone knows Singer's opinion on which capacities confer a right to life, could you please reply to my comment and tell me?
lukebeevers93 8 months ago