Title: Is Singer sacred?
Product review: The man touted as the greatest thinker of the age and most highly paid philosopher believes the retarded, the infirm and his aged mother should die for the convenience of the finances of the Government, more money to pay for his academic grants, and the preservation of cockroaches. If one advocated this as self-interest philosophers such as Parfit would call this monstrous, but since it is done in the name of self-sacrifice, it is all quite all right.This social darwinism with a collectivist or socialist face is quite interesting as a roman a clef philosophy of psychological confession--if one substitutes "I" in his prescriptions (or should one say proscriptions?). "Human Life is not sacred" or "Those society views as misfits should die" and so on become more interesting when we realize Singer is saying "My life isn't sacred " and "Those I view as misfits should die."Socrates would disagree with Singer, Hitler would not. This book will be a sure hit at the Universities.
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