Singer's views

[joanna bujes]

At 12:00 PM 06/05/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Another justification Singer offers for killing a "non-person" is
>that it frees "persons," or society, from what they may see as the
>"burden" imposed by the life of a "non-person."
>"We know that once our children's lives are properly underway, we
>will become committed to them; for that very reason, many couples do
>not want to bring up a child if they fear that both the child's life
>and their own experience of child-rearing will be clouded by a major
>disability." - Dr. Peter Singer in "Rethinking Life and Death, "

Singer's calculus of "happiness" is that of a moron. There is no relation 
between being a perfect object and happinesss. In fact, his objectification 
of humans through this kind of reduction, kills us all outright.

My best friend got into an argument about abortion with some guy, and he 
said, "I don't get it, if you can kill a foetus, why can't you kill a baby 
after it is born?"
"Because," my friend replied, "after it is born, it's a guest in your house."

That's all.

Joanna