Words are powerful - Thoughts shape - Ideas have consequences
Indeed, Australian born and bred PhD from Oxford University, Peter Singer, is credited with "more success in effecting changes in acceptable behavior" than any one philosopher since Bertrand Russell (New England Journal of Medicine). Both, by the way, have indelibly marked progressive state schools with their respective philosophical grids.
A soft-spoken teacher of Practical Ethics, Singer fills minds of gullible undergraduates with his decidedly atheistic and culturally extreme views. Alarmingly, The New Yorker dubs Singer the "most influential philosopher alive." Yet, lamentably, Singer affirms mutual consent as sole criterion for engaging in egregious acts of necrophilia (sex with a corpse-previously agreed to, of course), bestiality (sex with animals), and human breeding for spare parts.
In Singer’s sorry economy, the value of a life varies according to subjective criteria as self-awareness and rationality. Accordingly, Singer makes little distinction between an adult chimp and a human infant-except that, given a life-or-death choice, the chimp rightly trumps the babe. Not surprisingly, Singer first became known for jump-starting the animal rights movement among the world’s intelligentsia.
by Debra Rae Hat tip Virtue Online
http://www.changingworldviews.com/GuestCommentaries/DebraRaearticle17.htm
While surfing channels on television, I am taken aback-yet again-by repeated images of violence, dismemberment, and murder. That macabre themes, as these, define "adult entertainment" is unsettling, to say the very least.
Even more, I am troubled by "entertainment" consumed by America’s children and youth. As you no doubt have, I’ve observed a quiet six-year-old riveted to a computer monitor with "joy" stick in hand. In seconds, that boy was transformed into a virtual killing machine as he vicariously (and vociferously) acted out grotesque scenarios of mayhem and bedlam.
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