Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lfghjkl 05 January 2015 05:01:38AM 3 points [-]

Choosing to not create a new person is not the same as killing an existing one.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 05 January 2015 07:26:55AM 1 point [-]

I agree but in isolation in such an population ethics context it has insufficient elaboration. Some might disagree at least in theory.