也是一只自由泳的小鸟
“Though we used different signed languages, these Chinese Deaf people and I could make ourselves understood; and though we came from different countries, our mutual Deaf culture held us together. By the end of the evening we’d talked about Deaf life in China, and about Chinese politics.” I nodded. “You couldn’t do that in China,” he said. “No hearing person could. So who’s disabled then?”
“My advice is to have another kid,” Eve said. “So you know what it feels like to have it how it’s supposed to be.”
这里面真的好多生下了有缺陷的孩子的父母最后都会再要一两个孩子…我还以为一般会害怕基因缺陷不敢再要呢…后出生的孩子里确实也不乏出了一样毛病的
He proposes that not all persons are human beings; […] In Practical Ethics he wrote, “Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all.” […] Singer in effect reverses cogito, ergo sum and says that those who do not think do not exist.
啊这，“我思故我在”等于“我不在故我不思”啊，怎么能说“我不思故我不在”呢…
In Peter Singer’s definition, Imogen, Ashley, and others like them are not persons. Nonetheless, the parents I met who lived with and cared for such children often described a great deal of personhood in them. It’s impossible to establish in any given case in what measure such personhood is observed and in what measure imagined or projected.
也有听说狗的情感是人类的投射，狗的主人会想象狗在某种情景中的感受，并且用来解释狗的反应，即时狗在不同场景里的反应并没有什么不同？？
怎讲，这本书里的各种极端例子让我越看越乐观，感觉我也能当妈了
（明明很多对这本书的好评都是：这本书看着很压抑但请坚持看下去