tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post896712795549883740..comments2023-10-16T06:03:52.653-04:00Comments on Causa Nostrae Laetitiae: Eugencist Peter Singer at abortion debate at PrincetonLeticiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-16487774681034674552011-08-04T15:05:04.124-04:002011-08-04T15:05:04.124-04:00I always felt like his point was that it is not im...I always felt like his point was that it is not immoral for a parent to put their children out of misery in certain circumstances; and not that all Down syndrome children should be euthanized...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-38532627953198233732010-11-10T15:13:43.161-05:002010-11-10T15:13:43.161-05:00Here is a quote about Singer's view of the dis...Here is a quote about Singer's view of the disabled infant. <br /><br />Down syndrome, once again a genetically based condition, gets the most attention in Singer’s recent work. His 1994 book Rethinking Life & Death, whose aim is to articulate “a social ethic where some human lives are valued and others are not” (p. 112), recapitulates the arguments in favor of selective infanticide outlined above. There he endorses the view that “it is ethical that a child suffering from Down’s syndrome…should not survive” (p. 123) because “the quality of life of someone with Down syndrome [is] below the standard at which medical treatment to sustain the life of an infant becomes obligatory” (p. 111; in Singer’s terms “treatment to sustain life” doesn’t refer merely to surgical intervention but to simple feeding as well). This “quality of life” reasoning is sometimes cast in more colorful terms; in Should the Baby Live? Singer quotes, entirely approvingly, the grandmother of a Down syndrome child: “Had the poor little mongol been allowed to die, as he so easily could, my daughter might have had one or two healthy children in his place” (p. 66). Singer goes on to suggest lethal injection “in the case of a Down syndrome baby with no other defect” (p. 73).Leticiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08170455690163831806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367405.post-43850648795927244462010-11-08T09:40:40.921-05:002010-11-08T09:40:40.921-05:00you clearly mis-represent Singer, and this is just...you clearly mis-represent Singer, and this is just a straw-man attack. A "duty to kill humans lacking self-awareness"? Please quote his texts (e.g. "practical ethics") and show us where he says that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com