Benquo comments on One Life Against the World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 12 June 2011 03:09:04AM *  2 points [-]

Taboo "difficulty."

Creating a human life doesn't require a lot of advance planning/willpower, while saving a life does require you to think about the problem in advance and decide on an inconvenient course of action when nobody's forcing you to do so.

The costs of creating a human life in effort, financial expense, suffering, and willpower, considered as a whole, are greater than the costs of saving a life.