Rethinking Life and Death The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics

The new commandments according toRethinking Life and Death. --If you must take human life, take responsibility for the consequences of your decisions. --All human life is not of equal worth; treat beings in accordance to the ethical situation at hand. --Respect a person's desire to live or die. A profound and provocative work,Rethinking Life and Death, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley'sBrave New World, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twenty-first century.

Peter Singer teaches at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. One of founding fathers of the Animal Rights Movement, he is the author of the bestselling Animal Liberation.