ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that false philosophy can be dangerous, and suggests that it is probably all right, in extreme cases, to try to silence it in ways. One can understand why such individuals would find Peter Singer’s conclusions distasteful. In countries where the right is respected can exercise it by speaking openly to the friends, and by writing letters to politicians, and through peaceful demonstrations, and by picketing Peter Singer’s lectures. In Singer’s bioethics the word person is an honorific term. The persons of bioethical theory are almost godlike beings when compared to ordinary men, women, and children. Persons have dignity and they alone among human beings have an unchallengeable right to life. The case is otherwise with the Singerian view of personhood, because when Singer draws his distinction between human beings and persons he carefully detaches moral import from his idea of the human and transfers it to his idea of the person.
