Singer's views

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Thu Jun 6 10:47:10 PDT 2002



>On Thursday, June 6, 2002, at 03:01 PM, Luke Weiger wrote:
>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Marta Russell" <ap888 at lafn.org>
>>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>>Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 9:53 AM
>>Subject: Re: Singer's views
>>
>>>NO he doesn't. His line is drawn much earlier - This has already
>>>been posted on LBO in the past so I'm not going to take the time to
>>>look it up and give you the quote. It is in the archives and it is
>>>28 or 30 days.
>>
>>To paraphrase the Hitch: "Wrong. Wrong. Wrong as could be." The only
>>reason Singer draws the line so very early is to avoid any charges that we
>>lack the requisite certitude to model public policy based on the data at
>>hand.


>>-- Luke

If so, all the more poor the rationale.


>
>quite to the point, thanks. also . . .
>
>>
>>>So all these various "scientific" statements are really guesses, it
>>>is not known for certain.
>
>um, no. even to the extent that these measure are imprecise and
>there's no way to say, "at day 552+2hours+31minutes+05seconds, human
>children attain self-awareness," it's nevertheless nothing like me
>guessing off the top of my head how many jelly beans could fit in
>the space occupied by the atlantic ocean. it's seems to me that
>reducing such things to "guesswork" (when they aren't) is
>irresponsible in the extreme, and precisely the sort of thing that
>modernists always accuse postmodernists of doing.
>
>>>Can you imagine if society were to allow parents to kill their babies
>>>based on this? It would be absolute chaos.
>
>no, it would not. why do you think it would be?
>
>j

Well I for one would not want to live in a world where you two guys views were dominate. We are talking about real lives here, not playing some video game. marta

-- Marta Russell Los Angeles, CA http://www.disweb.org



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