Peter Singer is as Peter Singer does. http://www.newstatesman.com/node/152758 https://twitter.com/AlexiSargeant/status/849358601609203713 …
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Replying to @michaelbd
Counter-intuitive thoughts are the sole philosophical treasure, even -- or especially -- when they're found repugnant.
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Replying to @Outsideness
The idea that every human being deserves some protection from exploitation was also counter-intuitive once.
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Replying to @Outsideness @michaelbd
Yeah, there's not enough exploitation these days.
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Replying to @NoTrueScotist @michaelbd
Evangelical universal-egalitarianism hasn't done enough damage yet.
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Replying to @Outsideness @NoTrueScotist
There's so much habitable territory between Secular Puritan egalitarianism and "It's not rape if they low IQ."
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Agreed, and Singer is just another evangelical moral universalist (even still egalitarian in a more abstract way). ...
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... It's the idea that the answer is to shut people up that needs push-back. In the Internet Epoch, it's just an invitation to hysteria.
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