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

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 07 January 2012 11:12:04PM 0 points [-]

To which I can see people responding by getting pregnant, getting others attached, threatening abortion and collecting compensation just to make money. Especially if pro-lifers run around paying off as many would-be aborters as possible.

Comment author: Multiheaded 08 January 2012 09:11:53AM *  1 point [-]

Maybe. Maybe society would create new norms to fix that.

I'd like to mention that I'm emphatically not a libertarian (in fact identifying as socialist), and find many absurdities with its basic concept (see Yvain's "Why I Hate Your Freedom); however, I'd always like to learn more about how it could plausibly work from its proponents, and am ready to shift towards it if I hear some unexpectedly strong arguments.