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To: goldworldnet who wrote (156083)	6/27/2001 9:30:17 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 769667

Where I went to college, even the left of the Left professors on the Philosophy dept. faculty got squirmy when Pete Singer's name was mentioned. I think he is a bit less well though of than the article lets on. His idea of seperation of personhood and humanity is fairly mainstream, and not altogether controversial. An isolated human cell is genetically human, but we wouldn't consider it a "person." A "person" in philosophical mainstream is, to paraphrase, a being that can reason and hence can be attributed rights. I don't know anyone besides Singer who would assert a cow is a person. That's pretty asinine, even by far-out-there reasoning. What I caught in that article is Singer's allusion that the Nazi's honest euthenasia (as opposed to his veiled) is not acceptable because "it was not for the good of the infants involved." If the infant is not a person, this is irrelevant. No "harm" can be done the child, and other than purely sympathetic reasons, we would be morally clear to do as we please with it, including doing away with it at will, like you would put down a dog. Derek