Peter Singer (I) Speciesism & Animal Rights

Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a position he has held since 1999. He was educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford and has taught at the University of Oxford, La Trobe University and Monash University. Singer was the founding President of the International Association of Bioethics and, with Helga Kuhse, founding co-editor of the journal Bioethics. Singer first became internationally known after the publication of Animal Liberation in 1975. His other books include Practical Ethics, How Are We to Live?, Rethinking Life and Death, One World and The President of Good and Evil, and his next work, The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

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[ThatGuyWithHippyHair]

@pleasestopblockingme

I think I know why your username is what it is. Sorry, but "please" doesn't excuse you from suffering the consequences of being a speciesist bigot.

[SatoriWins]

@pleasestopblockingme - I'm assuming you would be more upset about the loss of your children than the loss of the stranger. But that doesn't mean universally your children are more important they are just more important to you. What people like Peter Singer try and do is look at the situation from a neutral perspective. You are not fit to make the correct ethical judgment about which being should die (your children or a stranger) because you are to emotionally attached to your children.

[SatoriWins]

@pleasestopblockingme It only matters more because we are attached to our children and we care for our own which is facsism. - To fire the same question back at you, which matters more? The life of your family of the life of a stranger? Please ignore the effects of law in this hypothetical scenario - If your children were killed by a stranger would you shed a tear? If your children killed a stranger would you shed a tear? -

[SatoriWins]

I only have one criticism of Peter Singer who really is a hero of mine and that is he doesn't take it far enough, he's very passive. We need someone, a leader that will finally recognise speciesism as wrong. Eating meat should be illegal. And with our scientific discoverys we're almost able to create meat in lab conditions. Imagine a world were innocent beings were not killed just for the pleasure of humanity.

[ThatGuyWithHippyHair]

Is the interviewer just playing devil's advocate or is he really that stupid? "Oh, well, your morality is too complicated, therefore it's wrong! We humans are too hare-brained to think through the consequences of our actions, boo-hoo!"

[GiantSandles]

@pleasestopblockingme Hold on to your horses there, Singer does believe that the life of a fully able human is more important than the life of say a crocodile, seeing as you posited the example. He just doesn't think "It's a human, therefore it's more important" is a very good argument for that.

[pleasestopblockingme]

The suffering of a human DOES matter more 'just' because it is a human being. Everyone of you 18 morons who liked this, i hope your children get eaten by a crocodile. Why would you shed a tear, would you shed tears if your children had instead eaten the crocodile?

[pleasestopblockingme]

Peter singer, a jew, coincidence?