Dentin comments on On Caring - Less Wrong

99 Post author: So8res 15 October 2014 01:59AM

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Comment author: Dentin 17 October 2014 04:12:56PM 0 points [-]

The biggest problem I have with 'dead baby' arguments is that I value them significantly below the value of a high functioning adult. Given the opportunity to save one or the other, I would pick the adult, and I don't find that babies have a whole lot of intrinsic value until they're properly programmed.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 21 October 2014 03:08:49AM *  0 points [-]

If you don't take care of babies, you'll eventually run out of adults. If you don't have adults, the babies won't be taken care of.

I don't know what a balanced approach to the problem would look like.