Why Singer is Wrong About Radical Life Extension

Peter Singer has argued that we should not proceed with a hypothetical life-extension drug, based on a scenario in which developing the drug would fail to achieve the greatest sum of happiness over time. However, this is the wrong test.

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Posted by George Garrett  on  12/11  at  05:10 PM

This issue is interesting, but what you posted amounts only to a "teaser" of the real article which requires a subscription on another site. You didn't expand your abstract into enough detail to warrant a blog posting with actual content. It would be nice to know what your "pluralistic account of the nature of morality" is in more detail.

Posted by Russell Blackford  on  12/11  at  06:31 PM

This is, indeed, just a teaser. It's the actual abstract, as printed in JME.

I'll probably blog in more detail about this issue, but bear in mind that the full argument is in the 7000-word article and that anything less will either not do the argument justice or will take almost as much effort as writing another article. So whatever I write will (a) have to be a compromise and (b) not be something I can just dash off.

Under my current circumstances (I've just moved interstate and all my books etc. -- dozens of boxes -- just arrived yesterday), it may take awhile before I can focus on this. Please bear with me.

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