Psychohistorian comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 08 May 2011 12:00:42AM 2 points [-]

Given that substantial variance may exist between individuals, isn't birth (or within a day of birth) a rather efficient bright line? I fail to see the gain to permitting more widespread infanticide, even taking your argument as generally correct.

Comment author: blacktrance 11 January 2014 02:36:29AM 0 points [-]

Given that substantial variance may exist between individuals, isn't birth (or within a day of birth) a rather efficient bright line?

Substantial variance exists between individuals, but it's not such that month-old babies are different enough from fetuses to merit legal protection.

I fail to see the gain to permitting more widespread infanticide

Medical research, perhaps?