is not an animal rights activists does not believe in human rights or animal rights and is a utilitarian. i was describing this to the class that if we accept the idea with less value of human beings to others there is no fundamental ability it would be such a setback after hundreds of years of striving to reach equality to setback based on a different type of discrimination we have done in the past would be tragic and a young woman came up to me very earnest you know, how the young are there was a long time ago. and she said you aren't telling me that a human being has greater value than a but the? i was a bit taken aback and i said yes. [laughter] and she said no. a buddy can feel paid we are equal i thought where did that come from? that planted a seed that resulted in "a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy" i was on a show a few years later that a talk-show host gave me permission to do that and i told the story i just mentioned in the talk show host got a very big and she gasped and said oh my gosh yesterday my son came home to announce that the family dog is equal to the rest of us. the

are read attached rational utilitarian, interested in is that who we are?hat is who we are, we're doomed likely i don't see a likely scenario in which to have a global economy i see no way to heal the planets in the global biosphere if we're depraved utilitarian materialistic and pleasure seeking and autonomous agents. in the last 10 years of the cutting age of evolutionary biology hour researchers have been making discoveries and the discoveries are breathtaking in their imports because they force us to rethink the traditional chivalrous about what human nature is all about. going back to italy a sleepy place they were studying a monkey they put the mri scanner on the brain then they watched the monkey try to open up the nets. and they recorded the narrow connections. by sheer serendipity, a human trainer walked into the laboratory and happen to pick up the nuts and try to open it as well. he simply stared at the trainer then they noticed on that mri that the same neurons were lighting up when he observed the trader as when the monkey was opening that up h

either point of view as treating manza ends or a jon stewart mill kind of point of view taking a utilitarian point of view on this. first of all, it's not right to do it. it undermines our values as a force if we behave in that way. it can have a corrosive effect. but also it just wouldn't work. i mean, there's no reason to do it from a military operations perspective. now, the large -- the largest percentage of the people who we capture in iraq or afghanistan -- you know, many of them have been essentially brainwashed, okay? they have been brought into these organizations through effective propaganda disinformation. some joined for money and so forth. you have a very tiny corps of committed idealogs. and they are recruiting and coercing them to join these organizations. i'm talking people with third and fourth education. they kill the and the mosque can and they use the mosque as a recruiting tool. they draw 15 and 16 years old and say give us your son or we will kill your family. so once they see that we are not some part of a zionist crusader conspiracy. that we're not there to subrogate

movement is to try to bring attention and value to unborn life and that certainly would be resisted by utilitarian bio ethics. >> has peter singer made any comment on that gentleman who was in a persistent vegetative state for 23 years and recovered and whose experience tell us he was self-aware? during that long process? >> i haven't seen peter singer make a comment about it. ron was actually, it appears, in a locked-in state, when he was fully awake and aware but unable to communicate. that is a state that does exist. about 40% of persistent vegetative state diagnosis are inaccurate. i don't want to get off in bioethicses there's many in oeics that's more of a reason to take away their food and water and euthanize them because they're suffering. that's actually a subject for a different speech. >> i agree fully with human exceptionalism but my rational basis for that is mankind created in the image of god. are there people who hold to human exceptionalism but reject the mankind made in the image of god and give some other rationale? >> yeah. in fact, i spend maybe a page and a half in my book on