I mean the context of the post was—and we'll just go with text here, not subtext—somebody who saves lives for a living being on duty during a climate catastrophe with a friend who got the news their grandfather was on his death bed and staying so the other could be with him.
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It you take that situation at face value (it does seem a little contrived) then the calculus being employed there seems a lot like reasoning I would use. Like, somebody dying is gone forever? Assuming they're important to you a death usually takes priority over a birth?
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Like you notify your partner, you send someone to be there in your stead, you FaceTime or something if at all possible, but Death wins (and yeah a baby can be stillborn too but if that's likely to happen there will typically be some indication in advance)
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Like if that is literally the ethical problem then DEONTOLOGICALLY SPEAKING that is the most prosocial choice to me. The exception being if somebody was expected to die in advance, because you have a social responsibility to say your goodbyes _before_ you have to save lives
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Also like The responsible thing would be to discuss such a scenario in advance? If there's a nonzero chance you won't be on hand for a childbirth then you and your partner need to evaluate any contingencies for that not to be totally emotionally devastating IF it happens
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I don't know I guess the idea that somebody would unmitigatedly prioritize and center my needs over everybody else's, completely without question, in any circumstance, just seems like a flight of fancy to me, or a decadent luxury It doesn't seem like the kind of thing I'd get
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Okay I feel like you're talking down to me a little
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Yeah the thing is, unfortunately, this isn't really our culture deferring to the pregnant person unconditionally so much as deferring to the unborn child unconditionally
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