Office of Public Affairs | ‘764’ Extremist Group Leader Pleads Guilty to RICO, Child Exploitation Charges | United States Department of Justice
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Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) group 764 pleaded guilty today to racketeering activity and multiple acts relating to the sexual exploitation of children.
Thoughts on the Morality of Lethal Self-Defense. If someone is attacking you, you are justified for taking action to defend yourself.
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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.
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“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.
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