Tag: Peter Singer
In Prestigious Journal, Bioethicist Pushes Human Extinction
The human-extinction movement used to be pretty fringy but it may be gaining traction within bioethics and philosophy.
Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs
A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least.
Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer
Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value.
Top Medical Journal Demands “Ecological Equity”
This isn’t some outlier bioethicist or animal-rights activist being given a few pages of ink.
Pro-Abortion Absolutism and Its Consequences
Abortion absolutism is a radical departure from the once well-accepted idea that nascent human beings — at least at some level — deserve respect and protection.