Peter Singer: Greatest Good for the Greatest Number |
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Written by <a href='/community/profile/68-danieleaton/'>danieleaton</a>
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Monday, 18 November 2002 23:43 |
Book: One World: The Ethics of Globalization, by Peter Singer
Article: Greatest Good for the Greatest Number, washingtonmonthly.com
Peter Singer elaborates on the benefits of globalization....
"Yes, it's that Peter Singer. The one who has suggested that animals sometimes have the same rights as people, that the old should be euthanized to divert resources to the young (though he would spare his own infirm mother), that Americans should give away almost everything they possess to the developing world and live themselves like the developing world's poor (Singer donates to charity but he hasn't given almost everything away, as he advised others to do, and won't give to bums on the street). The Peter Singer who has said that utilitarian arguments can justify killing the innocent if benefits to others are large ....
(a chilling thought, but also U.S. policy, as it is on utilitarian grounds that U.S. forces have killed some innocent people during the campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan; presumably, Singer supports this). The Peter Singer who has suggested that severely handicapped infants should be killed for their own good (strangely, only people who were not born severely handicapped take this view), whom The New Yorker has called the world's "most influential living philosopher"" more
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