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Randaly comments on Compartmentalizing: Effective Altruism and Abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Randaly 06 January 2015 07:05:21AM -1 points [-]

The argument doesn't understand what the moral uncertainty is over; it's taking moral uncertainty over whether fetuses are people in the standard quasi-deontological framework and trying to translate it into a total utilitarian framework, which winds up with fairly silly math (what could the 70% possibly refer to? Not to the value of the future person's life years- nobody disputes that once a person is alive, their life has normal, 100% value.)