I do not believe, but can understand / have respect for the argument that the fetus slowly transitions from 0 moral worth to full moral worth I will defend "no abortions on day 2" intellectually, but have no emotional angst at idea of RU-486 at that point
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I have zero tolerance for "nuh uh, it's not <BAD THING> ... because. Now shut up." I respect a lot "yes, it is bad thing, let's grapple with it..." problem is, there's a mode that apes that second one: "I want to do X, so, uh, I've 'grappled with it'...and now I get to! WOO!"
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The Repugnant Conclusion problem is basically an arithmetic error. I should write up my take on this but never will.
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at its most basic it’s about the trade-off between existence (above some threshold) and well-being
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Replying to @literalbanana @St_Rev and
which seems fair to me, at least to think about
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It's a bad way to think about it, in that the death of an existing person is meaningful in a way the nonexistence of a hypothetical person is not. This should be obvious if you try to reverse the steps in Parfit's argument!
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Like, in one timeline you have Happyland and Mediocritania, and another one you just have Happyland, I don't know how to compare those. If you want to talk about *nuking Mediocritania*, that's a little bit easier to evaluate!
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.