{"id":2866,"date":"2012-08-17T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T19:43:39","slug":"princeton-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"Princeton U. professor: \u2018Just being human doesn\u2019t give you a right to live\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, Peter Singer. For years he&#39;s written extensively on how you have to qualify to live. At least he&#39;s honest about it. He&#39;s written elsewhere many times that&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.equip.org\/articles\/peter-singers-bold-defense-of-infanticide\/\" target=\"_self\"> an adult dog has more rights then a newborn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found his article referenced here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesite.net\/news\/just-being-human-doesnt-give-you-a-right-to-live-peter-singer-sums-up-pro-a\" target=\"_self\">To the ears of us ordinary people, it sounds like the ravings of some fringe group of European neo-fascists or Communists, but the man who made that statement in a Scottish newspaper today is perhaps the most acclaimed and respected ethical philosopher alive, toasted by liberal academic and political elites around the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the original article is in The Scotsman (UK) here &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/the-scotsman\/opinion\/comment\/analysis-why-it-s-irrational-to-risk-women-s-lives-for-the-sake-of-the-unborn-1-2467196\" target=\"_self\">We can plausibly argue that we ought not to kill, against their will, self-aware beings who want to continue to live. We can see this as a violation of their autonomy, or a thwarting of their preferences. But why should a being\u2019s potential to become rationally self-aware make it wrong to end its life before it has the capacity for rationality or self-awareness?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, they&#39;d all agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, Peter Singer. For years he&#39;s written extensively on how you have to qualify to live. At least he&#39;s honest about it. He&#39;s written elsewhere many times that&#0160; an adult dog has more rights then a newborn. I found his article referenced here &#8211; To the ears of us ordinary people, it sounds like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8572,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/8572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}