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Comment author: alienist 06 January 2015 02:24:26AM 15 points [-]

You are accepting some sort of Repugnant Conclusion,

If you have a utiliterian framework that rejects the "Repugnant Conclusion" without coming to even more repugnant conclusions (of the kill the poor variety), I'd love to see it.

Comment author: joaolkf 10 January 2015 02:28:43PM 1 point [-]

Maybe the second paragraph here will help clarify my line of thought.

Comment author: joaolkf 08 January 2015 06:06:30PM 0 points [-]

We are not evaluating ethical systems but intuitions about abortion.

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