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What credence do you give to the proposition that every sperm is sacred?
Unless your credence is a lot less than one in a billion (which is dubious given overconfidence bias) then this dominates all other concerns
How would it dominate? What would you do if it were true?
It would dominate (if you buy into the EA maximise QALY assumptions) because the QALY lost would massively outweigh those lost to everything else.
If it were true, then I suppose one could freeze sperm so that a future space faring civilisation with room for a larger population can use them. But I'm not suggesting anyone actually bites this bullet.