Singer protest

[Marta Russell]

>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:10:08 -0700 Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes:
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>  > Statement of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
>>  (DREDF)
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>>  According to Singer, to be ethical, we must treat all "persons"
>>  according to moral guidelines.  But not all humans are "persons" in
>>  his view. Singer claims that in order to be "persons" and to deserve
>>  moral consideration, beings must be self-aware, and capable of
>>  perceiving themselves as individuals through time.
>
>Does anyone here have any objections to Singer's thesis concerning
>persons?

Singer claims that a human only becomes a person (self- aware) at 30 
days or some such point.  He cannot know this.  There is no science 
that can make this distinction in consciousness. Why not 28 days, 31 
days, why not 30 days and two minutes?  Do all babies become self 
aware at the exact same moment?  How about slow and fast starters 
(variation in the species)  Singer's position is just too much BS for 
me.
Singer would put everyone in a coma on the nonperson killing list -- 
they aren't self-aware, but how many do we know come out of a coma? 
One is enough to not be killing them.
Marta

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Marta Russell
Los Angeles, CA
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