Peter Singer and human rights abuses in Adelaide

Interesting tidbit. It's not just me that has issues with Australia's great contribution to ethics, and possibly our biggest contribution to philosophy as well, being a guy who's made his name by advocating infanticide and all manner of other exciting things... can't tell if he's just trying to be controversial, or whether he's taking a simple idea (utilitarianism) to a ridiculous extreme, or whether he really believes that it is a good idea to exterminate non-human defectives...

c/o Crikey

Eyebrows are being raised at the choice of Professor Peter Singer to deliver the annual Don Dunstan Foundation Oxfam Community Aid Abroad Human Rights Oration at the University of Adelaide on Monday night.

Peter Singer and human rights? The same Peter Singer who has said, "killing a disabled infant...is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all"? The same Peter Singer who has talked about euthanising any "non-person" - including "defective" babies, sufferers of dementia, the comatose and the physically disabled?

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