JC Disciples
A Logical Conclusion
I read the following short article in the Arizona Republic in April 1999.
Philosopher draws protests
Princeton, N.J. :: More than 100 protesters denounced Princeton University on Saturday for hiring a philosopher whose controversal views include allowing parents to end the lives of their severely disable infants.
"Nazi Germany did the same thing to the disabled, judging their lives not worth living. We object to that," said John Scaturro, 49, who protested near the Ivy League school along with his wife and young daughter.
University officials stood by the appointment of Peter Singer, a professor whose academic work they say will contribute to scholarship and ethics debate at Princeton.
Singer, a professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, was appointed last year to the Ira W. DeCamp Professorship of Bioethics at the university's Center for Human Values. He is to begin work in July.
The 52-year-old academic is widely considered the father of the international animal rights movement, and has argued that parents should have the right to euthanize newborn children who have severe handicaps.
In his books, Singer has said that children less than a month old have no human consciousness and do not have the same rights as others.
I have to say that at least Dr. Singer has taken the current situation concerning children to its logical conclusion. When Roe vs. Wade was decided the Supreme Court made it clear that pre-born children had no value and did not have the same rights as post-born children. Over time the Pro-Abortion forces have done everything they can to minimize the "human" component of the child a woman is carrying before has an abortion.
Dr. Singer has taken the position of Pro-Abortion forces and carried it one step farther. He has concluded that since the pre-born child can not have a human consciousness then it is also impossible for 1 month old to have a "human consciousness" as well. And if this is true then it is a logical conclusion that the parents have the right to euthanize newborn children.
Of course the next logical conclusion is that if anyone lost their "human consciousness" they would be a candidate for being euthanized. In fact, the only logical conclusion has to be the "state" (as in the government) making decisions about which people will and who will not have value in our society. Anyone not deemed to have value in our society will be executed (oh I mean euthanized) by the state for the betterment of the rest of society.
Afterall, it is the logical conclusion.
Some other web sites to look at on this topic
- The Appointment of Professor Peter Singer
- Protests about Peter Singer
- Sign the Petition Against the Hiring of Peter Singer
- Critique of Animal Liberation