As usual, Singer handles both the tough questions and the naive questions brilliantly. Some people believe that his acknowledgement that some questions are tough is a weakness. They've got things backwards. It's one of Singer's strengths.

Mr Singer you are a beautiful soul.

Wonderful interview

Yikes. Singer is an interesting philosopher whose moral outlook is entirely consistent with utilitarianism. These strawmen takes - Singer hates humanity, Singer is a baby killer - are really tiresome. Singer reaches the natural conclusions of a utilitarian, and has the courage to embrace its more contentious implications, despite severe public criticism. Legitimate criticism might be levelled at utilitarianism itself as a moral philosophy, but Singer should be praised for his fight to reconcile it with our more humanistic impulses. If you bother to read his work, his general approach is broadly humane. The interview here is excellent, and I praise Tyler Cowen for his interesting questions and challenging, albeit respectful, style.

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number: your choice."

The abortion line of questioning definitely exposed some non-utilitarian tendencies at play.

@AhhsvsvHhehe

Жыл бұрын

Why? Where i used to live (Amerika), most kids were on the street and their mothers were drugged ASF, most of those children will be criminals or die before the age of 30. You(society), will judge them without consideration of their environment. They will become outcast(worthless and shadows), the system will make sure they never recover from their unsustainable environment. The conservative movement doesn't want to help them and they want to fund the police more to deal with the (kids) better. The Democrats don't give a shit unless is about money. Explain to me, how abortion is not to the benefit of the majority in our current world situation.

I ued his Ethics textbook in college. I remember dismissing his utilitarian philosophy because I learned that he donated ONLY 25% of his Harvard salary on charity

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately Singer has infected many educated radicals who will kill to protect environmentalism.

@franciscogalan8017

11 ай бұрын

Which is, of course, not an ad hominem. Did you skip your Logic course as well? :O

@jaronhall

10 ай бұрын

@@franciscogalan8017I think he’s joking. Most people don’t donate even 25%

@WhiteRussianBC

10 ай бұрын

When did Peter Singer work at Harvard? I thought he was at Princeton.

@JohnThomas

9 ай бұрын

Lies! He didn't donate even one cent of his Harvard salary! :P

I would want to ask Peter Singer (whose views I studied back in the 1990s), "When did you stop loving ordinary, or 'lesser', human beings: and why?" Of course I would want to ask the same question of David Attenborough, and many more elitist people with sociopathic tendencies.

@pookz3067

11 ай бұрын

Most people likely never started, and so don’t have an answer for when They stopped

@HagiaSophia1952

11 ай бұрын

@@pookz3067 Great point!

@jaronhall

10 ай бұрын

What makes you think there are some people that singer does not love?

@JohnThomas

9 ай бұрын

I'm confident that Singer would deny that he stopped loving ordinary or 'lesser' human beings.

Singer’s recent comments on euthanizing babies (he says babies with a 'very severe disability' should be eligible for euthanasia) is abhorrent.

@AhhsvsvHhehe

Жыл бұрын

I have an idea, the parents who don't want to deal with that, should give them to the government and the government should fund their system. That way they stay alive.

@pookz3067

11 ай бұрын

Grow up

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

@@pookz3067 I can't, I'm dead because I was determined by Singer to be unworthy of life.

@birgitjevremovic9783

11 ай бұрын

@@AhhsvsvHhehe totally agree

@jaronhall

10 ай бұрын

Have you looked up the types of disabilities he’s describing? If a baby is constantly suffering due to this disease do you think the most moral thing to do would be to keep them barely alive?

Singer would kill you to save a snail.

@JohnThomas

9 ай бұрын

That is a gross misunderstanding, even if intended as hyperbola. You've either not read Singer or not understood him.

Peter Singer got exposed hard

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

And nothing will happen

@JohnThomas

9 ай бұрын

What makes you think that!? This "exposition" makes Singer look good.