Hi,
I'm someone interested in this area and follows the logic where it leads come what may. I'm secular with strong left leaning but I'm often contrarian and know of at least one area that I strong disagree with Peter S.
Anyways looking forward to reading some interesting posts.
Cheers
Simon

Fantastic to have you here. I couldn't agree with you more about the importance of following our logic, even when it leads to conclusions that may make you feel uncomfortable. Please do share the area on which you disagree with Peter Singer.

I can think of one: he supports American style university where most professions are studied postgraduately. Under that sort of system I would have had to study biomedical science for three years before starting medicine. Waste of time in my opinion (sorry Peter!)

Hi Simon, nice to see you here. Where are you from?

Arepo wrote:Hi Simon, nice to see you here. Where are you from?

I'm from Australia but I don't identify as Australian. I'm one of those odd global citizen people whose national identity ranks quite low in the scheme of things.

RyanCarey wrote:Fantastic to have you here. I couldn't agree with you more about the importance of following our logic, even when it leads to conclusions that may make you feel uncomfortable. Please do share the area on which you disagree with Peter Singer.

I can think of one: he supports American style university where most professions are studied postgraduately. Under that sort of system I would have had to study biomedical science for three years before starting medicine. Waste of time in my opinion (sorry Peter!)

This is something I'd like to take up in a philosophy thread. It's mainly to do his Animals rights arguments concerning similar interests and the oveall link between normative actions and desires. Basically he and others -if I have it right- think that rights and related preferences needs desires to ground them whereas I find this really strange as we deal with abstract interests all the time that have no basis in current desires. This follows onto other related subjects but I would like to flesh them out before going onto other topics.

The another one deals with the ethics of finite resources -which I'm only starting to study- and think that giving a small % of your income isn't nearly enough to be thought as doing the moral thing.

Cheers
Simon

It sounds really interesting. Don't hesitate to start a thread on either or both of those topics SJM!