Peter Singer on Bioethics

Prof Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University talks with Prof Denis Noble, University of Oxford. They discuss a variety of issues, such as an individual's right to know about and choose their own medical care and the importance of ethics to medical science in determining these rights.

[@matthewfrazier9254]

100% people who hate singer have merely bought into the anti-intellectual meme and have misrepresented his views and ignored his actual thoughts. To paraphrase him myself, outrage may be extended over points of view taken out of his conceptual context.

[@weewilly2007]

"lay people" sticking nose into medicine is now alright because we all have bodies. But not so with physics because not all of us have to adhere to gravity and other physical laws? So say the experts

[@buckrogers8214]

It only took till the middle of video to persuade me folks should have the right to 'self-terminate' (T2). Gives new meaning to brain death. 😇 💝

[@pamelabibby180]

MISREPRESENTED HIS VIEWS HAVE WE MATTHEWFRAZIER WOULD YOU SAY THAT IF A PIDO WANTED TO KILL YOU

[@Frohicky1]

I didn't realise Singer thinks there are objective moral truths, he castigated Sam Harris for making such a claim for example.

[@filippolomuscio5912]

Apparently you
haven’t been listening very carefully. Peter Singer thinks that the view according
to which there are objective moral truths is likely to be true (see his “The
point of view of the universe”). He does not think, as Harris seems to suggest
in a rather confused way, that objective moral truths can be arrived at only
through science. He is correct in my opinion.

[@Vgallo]

They overestimated the amount of knowledge contained within the human body and the genome m- which shows an extremely poor understanding of epistemology, drs often make elementary epistemological errors.

[@paullees18]

An absolute reprobate.