Singer's views

[Justin Schwartz]

>
> > Singer's calculus of "happiness" is that of a moron. There is no 
>relation
> > between being a perfect object and happinesss.
>
>There are certainly a great number of maladies that can detract from human
>happiness.  We've all endured our share, I'm sure.  However, this doesn't
>even begin to touch upon Singer's strongest conclusion: entities with no
>conception of self aren't persons.  To claim otherwise, one must make
>arguments that suspiciously mirror the ones made by those who protest the
>destruction of innocent embryos.
>
>-- Luke
>

Yes, that's part of why the abortion issue is so hard, philosophically. But 
Marta's is a slippery slope argument. First they came for the newborns, and 
I didn't speak up . . . . That doesn't depend on denying that newborns 
aren't persons because they lack a conception of--the future, isn't it, in 
Singer? not the self. Personally I don't think they are coming for the 
newborns, so it's mere philosophy to say that they would be morally on solid 
ground if they were to do so. jks

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