Originally posted by Starlight
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A few people here just plain don't seem to understand that being able to find atheists who disagree with other atheists is not some sort of major coup, anymore than finding some religious people who disagree with other religious people... it's a big big world and people have a lot of views. I would say that The God Delusion remains the number one best selling book on atheism more than a decade after it was written because it is a very very good book. A few of the miffed philosophers quoted who had reviewed it were essentially objecting that it was not in the genre of academic philosophy and not written in a boring verbose way that explicitly counters all possible objections that could be dreamed up... which is true - Dawkins takes what I would say are many of the best philosophical arguments and lays them out simply and clearly and is able to cover a lot of ground and keep the audience interested precisely because he's not writing an book of academic philosophy and so doesn't need to waste time countering every one of 100 possible silly objections to every single statement he makes. He hits the nail on the head, and then moves on to hitting the next nail on the head, and doesn't stop to have an argument with a potential quibbler who might have an unusual view about the nature of the first nail.
Originally posted by seer
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As Singer points out, it is fairly common for hospitals to actually do infanticide - in quite a lot of neonatal wards where the baby is born particularly early and is suffering serious complications due to it and highly likely to have serious disabilities for life as a result, the doctors will often offer the parents the option of simply ceasing all life support for the infant and letting it die rather than going to the effort to keep it alive to live a seriously sub-optimal life.
And he has no problem with bestiality if it is mutually satisfying with no harm.
I don't have really have a personal opinion on or any interest in the subject. I guess I agree with Singer that if no harm is being caused then there's no problem, but can see that you could easily argue that if it's legal then there's a potential for harm, e.g. the Enumclaw horse sex case where a man died due to having sex with a horse.
Yes, [Singer] is a moral scumbag
As Rogue notes:
Singer... won the 2003 World Technology Award for Ethics.
Originally posted by Sparko
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