Tag: human exceptionalism
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Wesley Smith on Peter Singer
From First Thoughts by Wesley J. Smith: Peter Singer Sympathetic to Human Extinction as Way of Avoiding Suffering Peter Singer blogs at the New York Times about a new book (Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, by David Benetar) that apparently advocates human extinction as a way of preventing human…
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Podcast: The Animal Rights Movement from an Orthodox perspective
Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the “moral equivalence” between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the “brotherhood” of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out ! Listen…
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Wesley J. Smith: Unless we all matter
The Source “God loves each of us, as if there were only one of us.” – St. Augustine. If you want to accurately predict what could soon go wrong in society, just read the professional journals. Case in point: A bioethicist named Alasdair Cochrane, a deep thinker at the Centre for the Study of Human…
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Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
Occasional commentator to AOI blog and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith warns in a recent article that, “society’s belief in the unique moral value and importance of human life is under unprecedented assault…Most people still believe in human exceptionalism and are unaware that powerful social and cultural forces are working diligently to dismantle the…
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Keep the Human in Humane
Wesley Smith, occasional commentator on AOI blog published the is article on To the Source. Visit Smith’s blog Second Hand Smoke. When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even…