Chris Bertram writes that "Moral philosopher Peter Singer inspires powerful feelings, often of loathing, for his willingness to follow consequentialist arguments to their unpalatable conclusions."
I don't think "consequentialism" has much to do with it. I think that what gets people upset with Singer is that he has a strange, narrow, and crabbed view of what the appropriate ends for humans to pursue are. (Although I suppose you could rescue Bertram by saying that that is not a bad definition of what "consequentialism" is.)
Posted by DeLong at February 21, 2003 06:01 PM
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