Just a reminder: Intelligence is no guarantee of goodness

In his Wall Street Journal interview, Singer spoke of dilemmas that may arise in the future when parents are able to select the genetic traits of their offspring. “I would not oppose selecting for intelligence,” he says. “We could assume that people of higher intelligence would have good consequences for society.”…

Intelligence alone will not make the world a better place, and if anyone’s career proves the point, it is Singer’s. Over the years, he has turned his skill to rationalizing bestiality, proposing a 28-day period during which newborns could be killed, and concluding that breeding children for spare parts is “not . . . something really wrong in itself.” And why not? Once you’ve jettisoned the “old morality,” good and evil are just a matter of opinion. “Man without God is a beast,” wrote Whittaker Chambers, “never more beastly than when he is most intelligent about his beastliness.”