Peter Singer: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Hypocrisy

 by Diane McKelva

As a member of the Homo sapiens species, I have always found it blatantly paradoxical that the very people who purport the stringent ground rules for the legitimacy of life, whether in or outside the womb, healthy or infirmed, are themselves blessed, if not merely lucky, to have survived birth to live without someone condemning them to death just for breathing.  Despite the Gospel of Life, we continually embrace the extremist philosophies that promote a culture of death.

“Membership of the species Homo sapiens is not enough to confer a right to life.”

There was a time when the world heard the nonsensical ravings of a madman and rejected them as absurd, preposterous, and too outlandish to take seriously.  And yet, the world watched as one man, a fascist and anti-Semite, propelled a whole country, and portions of the world, to believe that Aryans were the superior race, and thus began to “ethnically” cleanse their society, eliminate inferiors, and attempted to redefine the framework of the Homo sapiens.   One might think the above quote was from that infamous madman.  It is not the words of Adolf Hitler.  The statement  is by the Australian moral philosopher and bio-ethicist, Peter Singer; the acclaimed utilitarian who is regarded by liberal academics and the political elite as the perhaps the most respected ethical philosopher alive today.

Like Hitler, Peter Singer ardently believes and postulates that the value of life should be determined by selective reasoning.  And like Hitler, Peter Singer is a hypocrite with the charismatic ability to persuade self-absorbed pliable minds to believe his rhetoric of determining the right to life.  How ironic that Singer is the son of Jewish parents who escaped Nazi-ruled Vienna in 1938.

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 Diane McKelva is an American writer and essayist. She is a "Southern writer" whose work often reflects her Roman Catholic faith as a convert, a survivor of cancer and abuse, and thus frequently examines issues surrounding moral and ethical dilemmas, and conflicts in humanity. She also produces short stories and poetry that challenge the reader to reflect on their own personal struggles.  She is a contributor to numerous Catholic publications such as Shalom Media, and a subsidiary of The National Catholic Register.  Her work also appears on Life of the Beloved where people are encouraged to grow in a better understanding that they are loved and valued by a loving Father.  She maintains the website The Essential Catholic, where Catholics, and non-Catholics, are challenged to view life through a spiritual lens.