ChristianKl comments on Non-standard politics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 October 2014 04:24:52PM *  6 points [-]

I always thought this was a pretty straightforward issue from a rationalist perspective - we have the technology to figure out whether the foetus has an active brain and can meaningfully perceive pain.

I see no reason to believe that you can in general kill a person because the person can't perceive pain. Congenital insensitivity to pain is a thing.

"Active brain" is also a term that wide open.