Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) group 764 pleaded guilty today to racketeering activity and multiple acts relating to the sexual exploitation of children.

Dr. Singer is also the author of Practical Ethics. In the 2nd edition of that book, he says something that I think is both correct and important.

 

The liberal search for a morally crucial dividing line between the newborn baby and the fetus has failed to yield any event or stage of development that can bear the weight of separating those with a right to life from those who lack such a right.

“Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons”; therefore, “the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”

 

Dr. Singer believes that the idea of treating self-aware, non-human animals as non-Persons is speciesism. And to say that human life is always more valuable than the life of a given animal is wrong.