Re: Peter Singer's Ethics - Derived from Fact and Reason?

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 13:24:33 MST

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    On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Olga Bourlin wrote:

    > Go to "Unspeakable Conversations":
    >
    > http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/

    The best URL (for now) is:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/16DISABLED.html?pagewanted=print

    > Olga [who lost interest in Singer's "Animal Rights" at the very beginning,
    > when he compared chicken sandwiches and WWII holocaust victims]

    I'll not climb on board the Animal Rights debate since I think it
    is a context sensitive moving target.

    But Peter does step into science, ethics and nanotech with:

    `Mind the gap': science and etihis in nanotechnology
    Nanotechnology 14:(2003) R9-R13
    http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/pdf/nanotechnology_paper.pdf
    see also:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2758191.stm

    Robert

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