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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 10:35 PM
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Poll question: Some animal rights leaders are bizarre. True or false.
Some animal rightists advocate bizarre beliefs.

Peter Singer:
"Killing an infant is not equivalent to killing a person because by a person I mean something more of a rational self-aware being."
http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/special/index.shtml

Tom Regan:
Tom Regan was famously asked if he were aboard a lifeboat and had to throw either a dog or a baby overboard, which one he'd choose. He answered, "(If) it were a retarded baby, and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/2005/000004.html

Professor Steven Best:
His statements generated a flurry of questions and criticism from the audience, which was made up of doctors, psychology students, animal-rights activists, and medical students. "If you saw a baby dying and a dog dying, which would you save?" one audience member asked.
"You need to be more specific with your question," Best replied. If a house with his dog and someone he didn't know was burning, he said he would save his dog, prompting another wave of gasps.
http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/2005/000004.html



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rudeboy666 Donating Member (959 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 10:37 PM
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1. Context?
At least for Singer.
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Avalux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-05 10:38 PM
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2. Locking.
This post is inflammatory, for obvious reasons.
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