Peter Singer Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning.

  Peter Singer

  Strong, Yield, Long

  "How to stop yourself breaking that new year's resolution" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2011.

• My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that it is better that a baby should die, I believe it should be possible to carry out that decision, not only by withholding or withdrawing life-support - which can lead to the baby dying slowly from dehydration or from an infection - but also by taking active steps to end the baby's life swiftly and humanely.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Believe, Taken

  "Princeton bioethics professor faces calls for resignation over infanticide support" by Jessica Chasmar, www.washingtontimes.com. June 16, 2015.

• Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Honesty, Unique

  Peter Singer (1993). “Practical Ethics”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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