Comment by barry-cotter
2 years ago
Yes. Do you have a point to add to that? Do you feel there’s some reason he’s obviously wrong for example?
2 years ago
Yes. Do you have a point to add to that? Do you feel there’s some reason he’s obviously wrong for example?
Are you being serious? Or is this just some wicked kind of sarcasm?
To the downvoters: do you have any experience with little kids? As a father of a 2 year old, it is pretty obvious what's wrong with infanticide...
Cultures that don’t practice infanticide are the exception in the historical and anthropological record. Not killing your children was invented by the Egyptians, taken up by the Jews and spread by the Christians, Muslims, presumably other Abrahamic faiths and cultures derived from them. It has not been obvious to the huge majority of people ever born that there was anything wrong with infanticide. If you think it is obviously wrong you might want to make an argument of some kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide
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Well, I am a former embryo and fetus. I was given the opportunity to be born, and so I became pro-life. That seems like a pretty obvious and logical decision.
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Relevant context. Singer has a lot of clout because people read some of his stuff in a first year philosophy class. For those who didn't get the memo that the man is a crazy misanthrope, him taking the idea of infanticide seriously is a pretty good indicator of what his specific grift actually is.
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> A 23 months old human is generally less intelligent than a dog
Wow. Do you have any experience with little kids? With 23 months my daughter was drawing pictures, singing songs, laughing at my jokes, reenacting scenes from theater plays, etc.
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a 23 month old human will beg for their life. Doesn't that contradict his position on killing sentient animals?
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