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EPISODE · Feb 16, 2010 · 6 MIN

Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism

from What It Means to Be Human · host Wesley Smith

On this episode of What It Means to Be Human, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith takes a look at "personhood theory" advocated by such as Princeton University's Peter Singer. Listen in and learn more about the threat to the sanctity of life ethic as the fundamental value of our social order. As Smith says, "The time has come to pay attention. If human life is knocked off the pedestal, universal human rights will be impossible to sustain."

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