Peter Singer & Vegetarian Dogs (was Re: The Heiress andtheAnarchists)

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Mar 3 20:28:21 PST 2000


Ken Hanly wrote:


> So if torturing one person were somehow the only way you could save 10,000
> innocent lives would it be wrong to do so?
>

Yoshie made the appropriate comment on this use of "hard cases" for obscurantist purposes.


> But Singer is just asking for some justification for the fact that the mentally
> defiicient person's being human somehow justifies the differential treatment.

Are you serious or just playing devil's advocate here?

Carrol



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