Singer's latest

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Tue Apr 3 16:15:14 PDT 2001


Kelley Walker wrote:
>
> At 02:27 PM 4/3/01 -0800, Marta Russell wrote:
>
> >No joke. The press release was an announcement of the de-throning of
> >Singer from his position at that particular animal group organization.
> >Sheep, afterall, can't and don't give consent to humans to use them
> >for sexual pleasure --
> >so are you saying you condone having sex with animals? That would
> >certainly give a new slant on farming.
> >Marta
>
> peter singer certainly isn't condoning it either.

I don't really know whether he is or not. This announcement says Singer thinks people and animals can have satisfying sexual relationships - for utilitarian logic it sounds pretty much like going along with the act to me. But I would need to read more.

Marta



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