tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947964490177680498.post815932586307498173..comments2023-09-30T08:18:57.378-05:00Comments on Pipecleaner Dreams: Eugenics LivesAshley's Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05621835327282616218noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-947964490177680498.post-70145935479598917982007-09-10T20:20:00.000-05:002007-09-10T20:20:00.000-05:00We get closer to the frightening world advocated b...We get closer to the frightening world advocated by Peter Singer:<BR/><BR/>"According to this avant garde thinker, unborn babies or neonates, lacking the requisite consciousness to qualify as persons, have less right to continue to live than an adult gorilla. By the same token, a suffering or disabled child would have a weaker claim not to be killed than a mature pig. Singer writes, in Rethinking Life and Death: <BR/><BR/>Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus. <BR/>And writing specifically about Down syndrome babies, he advocates trading a disabled or defective child (one who is apparently doomed to too much suffering) for one who has better prospects for happiness: <BR/><BR/>We may not want a child to start on life's uncertain voyage if the prospects arc clouded. When this can be known at a very early stage in the voyage, we may still have a chance to make a fresh start. This means detaching ourselves from the infant who has been born, cutting ourselves free before the ties that have already begun to bind us to our child have become irresistible. Instead of going forward and putting all our effort into making the best of the situation, we can still say no, and start again from the beginning."Carl Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07423587561842884011noreply@blogger.com