Laurance S. Rockefeller '32?

[Brad De Long]

>
>  Singer does say human life is not more valuable that animal life.  But he
>seems to justify infanticide primarily upon utilitarianism and his definition
>of personhood.  He says that infants under 30 days old are not 
>sentient beings,
>are not persons (fully human) so therefore it is OK to kill them if it would
>make the parents happy.

But Singer also says that it is not OK to kill animals cruelly, or 
wantonly, or for no good purpose--and that it is not OK for 
inhabitants of the industrial core to give less than 90% of their 
income to the world's poor. His position (which I don't like) seems 
to me to be a bit more complex...

Brad DeLong