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The Film Peter Singer: A Dangerous Mind

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After watching the movie Peter Singer: A Dangerous Mind, I’m not exactly sure where to begin. Now, the reason that I said I wasn’t sure where to begin is because this film covers quite a few different arguments. There is so much to process that I had to go over some parts again to make sure that I was absorbing everything that was being said. That being said, it’s seems the best place to start would have to be with Peter Singer’s very first words of the film. “Killing a disabled infant is sometimes not wrong. Given that the infant, like any infant, is not a person, as I see it, I think that it’s ethically defensible to say we do not have to continue its life. It doesn’t have a right to life”. It’s a jarring opening statement to say the least,

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