Singer protest

[Brad DeLong]

>>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