TimS comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 02 January 2012 04:08:56PM *  1 point [-]

Sure. Unborn babies have blicket-potential. Heck, the only reason I don't say that unconceived babies have blicket potential is that I'm not sure that the statement is coherent.

Blicket and blicket-potential are markers that special moral considerations apply. They don't control the moral decision without any reference to context.