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The mainstream LW idea seems to be that the right to life is based on sentience.
At the same time, killing babies is the go-to example of something awful.
Does everyone think babies are sentient, or do they think that it's awful to kill babies even if they're not sentient for some reason, or what?
Does anyone have any reasoning on abortion besides, Not sentient being, killing it is okay QED (wouldn't that apply to newborns, too?)?
The mainstream moral concept of LW is utilitarianism not deontology to the extend that there's a LW mainstream moral concept.
I don't most people here like dualistic thinking but consider being sentient to be a sliding scale.