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

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Comment author: Vaniver 05 January 2015 10:14:16AM 10 points [-]

Unless your credence is a lot less than one in a billion (which is dubious given overconfidence bias) then this dominates all other concerns

The easiest argument against this is to observe that sperm are not the limiting factor in creating more lives- uterus time and parenting time are.