Anyone remember Professor Peter Singer?
He’s the esteemed professor of bioethics at Princeton who advocated legalizing the execution of infants up to 28 days old in his book, Practical Ethics. I guess we have to assume that killing a 29 0r 30 day old human being–or a 29 or 30 year old?– might be an ethical no-no, but that’s not a given with Singer, either.
Talk about a poorly titled book! And that’s hardly the only outrageous belief held by this nutty professor. He seems to launch his insanity from a simple perspective: He really doesn’t like people although he seems to love animals, in every way conceivable. In a piece a while back by Kathryn Jean Lopez in NationalReviewOnline, she wrote, “In his latest belch, Singer reinforces his basic theory — the idea that humans ain’t nothing special.” (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGYxYjVjNDlmNjQ3NThiM2I1N2RhMDMxMzFkYWY1MjQ=)
However, great apes, though humans fit that genus, are very special and orangutans, well, they’re sort of super special. Not surprisingly, Singer has no problem with bestiality, nor does he endorse killing ape babies.
Doctor Doolittle only suggested we talk to the animals. Doctor Singer thinks we should meet them in their boudiors. (I tried to research his family life but I could find no reference to a marriage, which is a blessing for some lucky woman.)
Time was when college profs lived and died by the maxim, “Publish or perish,” which resulted in the most cockamamie garbage hitting the presses but, properly ensconced and tenured at Princeton, Singer can’t even use that excuse.
He’s in the news again...