Ideas have consequences. And academia is full of the most unimaginably horrifying ideas you can imagine. And many you can’t. There is no idea too horrifying that it will not have its defenders in the university.
And Peter Singer is the poster boy for horrible ideas.
Singer, the godfather of the animal rights movement, and a Princeton professor of bioethics, has argued for euthanizing the disabled and claimed that animals have the same value as people.
After taking a brief break to blame Israel for the Hamas massacres, Singer decided to promote “thought-provoking article is “Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible” by Fira Bensto (pseudonym)” which “challenges one of society’s strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual contact between humans and animals. This article offers a controversial perspective that calls for a serious and open discussion on animal ethics and sex ethics.”
Peter Singer is a vegan.
This isn’t Singer’s first go-around. There’s an entire article in the Journal of Clinical Ethics from 2003 titled, “Peter Singer and Bestiality.”
When you have an article in a journal that uses your name and bestiality as its title, something has already gone very wrong. But Singer’s entire existence is a sign that something has gone very wrong. Here’s some quotes from 2002.
Sex with animals is all right if it is consensual. “Your dog or whatever else it is can show you when he or she wants to engage in a certain kind of contact.”
He modified his previously published view that parents should be able to kill a child up to 28 days after birth. On second thought, he said, “you can’t really propose any cutoff date,” but the decision should be made “as soon as possible after birth.”
And yet Peter Singer continues to be quoted in the media as a serious thinker on ethical issues.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/vegan-godfather-of-animal-rights-promotes-sex-with-animals/