You selected three positions that Singer holds that are not radical—this does not make him non-radical. Singer’s views on the moral demandingness of giving and vegetarianism are certainly radical by most standards. Nobody had published these views before The Life You Can Save or Animal Liberation. Whether or not you agree with his views on the killing of severely disabled children, it was also highly radical at the time of publication.
You are ascribing an implicit value-judgment on radicalism, when being a radical is not ceteris paribus a bad thing. I only had two sentences to write this comment, so I couldn’t elaborate, but when I included Singer it was because he’s closely associated with the idea that every dollar spent is a dollar that could be donated, so most spending and ineffectively donating are morally wrong. This is a radical consequentialist view (which I don’t necessarily disagree with btw) that differs greatly from, for example, Giving What We Can’s recommended pledge to give 10% of income.
You selected three positions that Singer holds that are not radical—this does not make him non-radical. Singer’s views on the moral demandingness of giving and vegetarianism are certainly radical by most standards. Nobody had published these views before The Life You Can Save or Animal Liberation. Whether or not you agree with his views on the killing of severely disabled children, it was also highly radical at the time of publication.
You are ascribing an implicit value-judgment on radicalism, when being a radical is not ceteris paribus a bad thing. I only had two sentences to write this comment, so I couldn’t elaborate, but when I included Singer it was because he’s closely associated with the idea that every dollar spent is a dollar that could be donated, so most spending and ineffectively donating are morally wrong. This is a radical consequentialist view (which I don’t necessarily disagree with btw) that differs greatly from, for example, Giving What We Can’s recommended pledge to give 10% of income.