I would, of course, substitute "certainly" in the place of "maybe."
> but I recall that Singer framed his criteriua of
> personhood as a matter of being able to take an interest in your future
> interests.
He does, although I think my reformulation implied this ability. In a way, I suppose, it's better to mention it explicitly because it emphasizes Singer's adherence to a preference satisfaction model that a lot of consequentialists find unsatisfactory.
> Btw, Marta, the argumentum ad ignoramus is no good, How does Singer know
> that newborns can't do this? How do we know that most animals don't?
Yep. Singer had a lot fun in the NYRB responding to a letter writer who made an argument of this form with regard to plants.
-- Luke
> jks
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