Peter Singer: If a House Were On Fire I’d Save 200 Pigs Before Saving One Human Child

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Peter Singer is something of a house ethicist for the New York Times and especially beloved of the weak liberal thinker, Nicolas Kristof.

While I think he should be treated the same as if he were a racist for his anti-human equality views, the media here mostly ooh and aah. That is why I was pleased to see Singer pushed in an interview by a Swiss newspaper to claim that the lives of 200 (or some other number of) pigs should be saved from a fire over that of a single human baby. From the interview (Google translation): More...