While speaking at Princeton many years ago, Wesley J. Smith called the university to account for hiring Peter Singer with his horrendous views on infanticide. In the clip below, he describes how Singer’s views track closely with ideas common in 20th-century Germany—ideas that led to unspeakable atrocities. And yet, “[Nazi] Dr. Brandt was hanged at Nuremberg, and Peter Singer is teaching at Princeton! I find that remarkable and appalling! ... I would hope that the faculty of this university would think quite carefully before it does such a thing again.”
How does great evil happen? This is how. It begins with respect for evil ideas.