mamert comments on Ethical Injunctions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mamert 15 April 2016 06:31:43AM *  0 points [-]

Definitely yes. It's not like killing babies is inherently wrong (*), it just is under most circumstances. I was thinking more along the lines of euthanasia of babies you've discovered have been prepared for use in biological warfare... but my mind tends to go into bad places. Let's not get any further into that.

*) unless you use absolute values for wrong, in which case it definitely is, but so is breathing