Noam Chomsky and Peter Singer on Abortion

These clips are taken from the 2006 Tony Kaye documentary "Lake of Fire" that graphically depicts the contemporary abortion debate in the United States.

Noam Chomsky is professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist, and libertarian socialist.

Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), University of Melbourne. He specializes in applied ethics, approaching ethical issues from a secular utilitarian perspective.

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Education

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• Applied Ethics
• Bioethics
• Abortion
• Infanticide
• Stem Cell Research
• Divine Command

[TheShibo]

@MPedroful ... that is completely irrelevant. Respecting a carrot is much different from respecting a kangaroo. A kangaroo has desires. A carrot does not. It has no wishes to disrespect.

[TheShibo]

@GraceiamSAVED Ew. I just checked out your channel. You're even against gay marriage. How miserable.

[cjla1987]

How about being agaisnt abortion for gender equality. The vast majority of abortions are overwhelmingly done to females. So, if I were to think in terms of gender equality, I'd be against abortion. Also, there are principles that cannot be violated to human life. First, he is innocent (the fetus), he is a memeber of your community (your species) and, the right to life. Can these be violated easily?

[jpotts44]

@TheShibo Prove It

[historypoliticsbb]

Pretty much everything Chomsky said after the opening could have been taken straight out of UN, UNESCO, World Bank, IMF, WHO, Population Council, Planned Parenthood official documents. These organisations PROMOTE abortions, and the number of abortions increase wherever they are active. More 'globalization' = more abortion. There were not millions of abortions going on in Africa and the Global South before they arrived.

Very disheartening to say the least.

[kennedyt]

This a disappointingly obtuse argument from Chomsky

[KrugmanTheKing]

@gamerunknown

Education and more favorable circumstances to practice this sort of activity would make it better than a law.

[gamerunknown]

@gamerunknown

Derp, premise, not preposition. Always confuse those two.

[gamerunknown]

@KrugmanTheKing

I think the best method to reduce the number of abortions is to educate people from a young age about sex and methods of having sex that are unlikely to transmit diseases (including on prophylaxis), get one pregnant or make one vulnerable to abuse and also to provide a state that serves the welfare of the people like the Nordic ones, which have a much lower teen pregnancy rate.

[gamerunknown]

@KrugmanTheKing

Well I may not pass a law against it, but I'd try to discourage it as far as possible. I see an analogy in assassination: much of the harm comes from the fact that assassins are devoid in empathy, assassination could be done more efficiently and humanely from the state and wouldn't discriminate against rich or poor... but it still prevents the victim from feeling pleasure further in life and ignores their pain/implicit lack of consent.

[gamerunknown]

@KrugmanTheKing

Internally consistent, but not consistent with evidence. As in, the conclusion follows from the preposition that the moon is a wrathful God that requires a specific dance if we want to eat cheese that we should perform that dance in order to get the cheese. It just has no relation to reality. It is logically inconsistent to say that non-generative sex is fine between two consenting heterosexual adults but not likewise gays, since that's special pleading.