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drethelin comments on Is Politics the Mindkiller? An Inconclusive Test - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: OrphanWilde 27 July 2012 05:45PM

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Comment author: drethelin 27 July 2012 06:00:36PM 4 points [-]

Society has de facto decided that lives have different levels of moral value, and that it is ok to kill in some contexts. If you feel a fetus is not human, this averts the question, but even if a fetus is human you still can and should decide to whether they are moral to kill separately.

Personally, I don't think humans without subjective experience or memories are innately valuable, so I'm fine with killing them for convenience.