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

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 January 2015 05:01:28AM 1 point [-]

I was commenting on his arguments and his hypothetical Utilitarians, not giving my own arguments.

I don't have much of an issue with early term abortions. Having a steak or a hot dog seems more problematic, and I do both, with relish. Literally, with the hot dog.

Later term abortions are morally a problem, but so is nationalizing a woman's womb. Moral questions don't always have tidy feel good solutions. All in all, I'll go with letting the woman choose no matter the state of development of the fetus.