Classes have resumed throughout our nation's elementary schools, high schools and colleges. And at some schools, that may actually happen. Some students will be afforded an opportunity to study with great scholars, to be exposed to the great ideas in Western civilization, to learn how to use science and math to better their fellow man. But not everywhere. Very often it is not wrong at all.
Singer offers as an exemplar of justifiable infanticide, the killing of a child with hemophilia.
The loss of a happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Professor Singer's staunchest champion is the man who hired him, Princeton's President, Harold Shapiro, who also serves as the Chairman of President Clinton's National Bio-ethics Advisory Commission. At least one notable Princeton alumnus has expressed his alarm at the decision to hire Professor Singer. Strangely silent about all of this is another Princeton trustee, and one of the university's most famous graduates, the former Senator from New Jersey, Bill Bradley. None of this controversy has fazed Princeton's president.