Singer protest

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Jun 5 16:16:39 PDT 2002



>>On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:10:08 -0700 Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes:
>>
>> > Statement of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
>>> (DREDF)
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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...

Is Singer self-aware when he is asleep? Is it legitimate by his lights to kill him then?

Brad DeLong



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