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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:13:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8390 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Dostoevsky: When men stop believing in God, they will believe anything. I was alerted by Nat Hentoff about an assertion made by Peter Singer–as reported in the Catholic Eye–at a Princeton conference around the abortion question, in which he claims that human beings don’t possess full moral status until after the age of two. I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-peter-singer-says-full-moral-status-not-earned-by-babies-%e2%80%9cuntil-after-2-years%e2%80%9d/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6949 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-smith-on-peter-singer/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/ https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2011 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/feed/ 0