lessdazed comments on Are Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? - Less Wrong
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I would give a response similar to those of most of the people in the video if an important question had never occurred to me. If it had occurred to me and I was open to whatever answer was optimal, I would have "I don't know" available. Possibly the guy at 2:20 is in the latter category, but its not clear.
Because of the reaction to evidence showing things such as that sex education would reduce abortions, I'm disinclined to think that the anti-abortion movement's actions resemble a coordinated effort to reach a least bad end and am more inclined to think of it as a collection of local responses against anything they see as at all bad.
In other words, if the following is true:
...why do so many oppose sex education and safe sex?