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MugaSofer comments on Torture vs Dust Specks Yet Again - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: MugaSofer 21 August 2013 03:42:30PM 3 points [-]

I was about to post something similar, although I don't have kids myself.

In some sense, I'm already doing that. For the cost of raising three kids, I could have saved something like 250 statistical lives. So I don't know that our unwillingness to torture a loved one is a good argument against the math of the dust specks.

Huh. That's ... a pretty compelling argument against having kids, actually.

Comment author: BlueSun 21 August 2013 04:59:07PM 7 points [-]

Hmm, the microeconomics of outsourcing child production to countries with cheaper human-manufacturing costs... then we import them once they're university aged? You know you've got a good econ paper going when it could also be part of a dystopia novel plot.

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