To all
I didn't hear all of the debate but I read part of a transcript and
the list-serv responses and I've heard Singer before - he rarely
changes his tune. However, I am very interested in the amount of
times "Nazi" has come up in these debates. Personally I think that
elevates Singers position too highly. He's just a simple, plain
utlitarian and that is where a lot of his flaws are, in the
foundation of his system - benefit or happiness as I've said before
do not equal good. Attack the foundation and not what results from
it. If you want to knock down house oof cards you remove the card at
the bottom and not the top.
Laurence said, partly in jest whether there were any philosophers
whose work we could admire I have a modest suggestion the book is
called:
The Philosophical Disease: Bioethics, Culture and Identity
the author escapes me but I believe it is a doctor of medicine writing
not directly against but away from a Singer-esque view i.e taking
able-bodied to be the norm especially in the Chapter "We are not our
afflictions" I've yet to read all of it myself.
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