Ravenwood - 10/10/02 07:00 AM
Stupidity Watch, from the Best of the Web yesterday:
Consider two aspects of globalization: first, planes exploding as they slam into the World Trade Center, and second, the emission of carbon dioxide from the exhaust of gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles. One brought instant death and left unforgettable images that were watched on television screens all over the world; the other makes a contribution to climate change that can be detected only by scientific instruments. Yet both are indications of the way in which we are now one world, and the more subtle changes to which sport-utility-vehicle owners unintentionally contribute will almost certainly kill far more people than the more visible aspect of globalization.So I guess I'm no better than Mohammed Atta, because I drive an SUV.
-- Peter Singer, Princeton ethicist, in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Well, it is Peter Singer. He once said that he would have allowed his own mother to die in her old age, yet, alas, his sister intervened. The man has a very twisted system of ethics.
Posted by: Owen Courrèges at October 10, 2002 1:34 PMSo I guess I'm no better than Mohammed Atta, because I drive an SUV. It's possible....if you listen to the environmentalists.
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