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Peter Singer may remind us to live ethically, but only to his rather hateful ethics. Very few people do anything "bad" in their own minds. History is filled with 'ethnic cleansing'--murderous do-gooders serving, usually mankind or some 'higher truth', by killing those they deem trash, usually those without power to fight back.

Peter Singer is acting like any other playschool bully. The problem is, in this day and age, the small time bullies have dangerous weapons. If Peter Singer got hit by a car and his spine snapped, would he still be a person?

: -- Julia Trahan, Grad Student with a spinal cord injury (posted 3/7, 9:18 a.m., E.S.T.)

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