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

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 January 2015 04:50:37AM 0 points [-]

True.

But my guess is that the OP is more the type interested in the question of law, as evidenced by his blithe dismissal of concerns about autonomy.

Comment author: Dias 08 January 2015 02:17:17AM 4 points [-]

Your guess would be mistaken! I think I am much more concerned about the autonomy than the average EA, which is a large part of the reason I write the only libertarian effective altruist blog I'm aware of.

But most EAs do not seem to care about autonomy, hence why I pointed out than autonomy arguments, a classic pro-abortion argument, are not available to them.

Meta: I think you may have had a negative reaction to my post because you (perhaps reasonably) pattern-matched me as an ideological opponent, which I think is a (perhaps reasonable) mistake. I think some of my other posts, like this one, this one or this one might be more to your taste.