Although differences of opinion hopfully will always exist it was a
pleasure to read your comments below- you were able to
differentiate bet. your friendship w/ Adrienne and content.
In Unity,
Phyllis
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Lennard Davis wrote:
> I've been watching the debate all afternoon by downloading the archived
> material. I do think that Adrienne did a great job in a difficult
> circumstance, and I congratulate her and her willingness to do something at
> the last minute to confront Singer. However, I think that part of the
> problem is that two bio-ethicists were arguing with each other. Although
> Adrienne holds a very different set of opinions within that discipline,
> there is a whole lot of common ground. For me the central problem was that
> there was not enough discussion of society and the state as opposed to
> individuals and ethical choices. In essence, bioethics has a very
> individual-oriented predisposition. So one argues about whether a disabled
> child's parents should chose x or y rather than placing the whole nature of
> that question in a larger societal scope. There were moments that this
> kind of discussion came up, but usually in the context of "making a
> choice." I would think that Singer would have a harder time talking about
> law, legislation, the bill of rights (which they don't have in England and
> perhaps in Australia), the class system, civil-rights legislation, human
> rights and so on.
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
>
> Lennard J. Davis
> Graduate Director
> Deparment of English
> Binghamton University
> Binghamton, NY 13902
> 607-777-2770 Fax: 777-2408
>
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