Tag: Peter Singer
Perhaps the most influential public intellectual of the current world. His book Animal Liberation helped build America’s animal rights movement and his work more broadly helped create an effective altruism movement.
He's a philosopher who eats no meat or dairy and thinks we're no better than animals. In fact, he thinks a chimp has more right to exist than a person, and that killing babies can be justified. He is hated and feared for daring to challenge the sanctity of human life.
While some may say he is the Nazi of the modern world. A reincarnation of Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann, a philosophical hypocrite, and an enemy of civilization. He even wants to get rid of the Ten Commandments.
Singer's philosophy appears to provide an easy calculus to the determination of right from wrong. To live an ethical life. But up close, its inhumaneness, its leveling of our own moral status with that of other creatures, and denial of the special intimate relations we have with other particular humans, cannot guide us through the journey of human life. Peter Singer, latter-day prophet, significant vegan, philosophical sage and preference utilitarian, is locked in the same moral muddle as the rest of us, and it's just not manifested to himself just yet.
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