it's probably the same distinction between killing fetuses and killing convicted prisoners
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Replying to @browserdotsys
the argument against killing fetuses is theological (unbaptized, go to hell) but it can be reconstructed as a secular argument (no agency, unable to be considered a moral actor) the argument against doing things to embryos is that they have no agency.
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Replying to @danlistensto @browserdotsys
yeah - plus general background assumption that creating a person is no harm so no duty to make smarter/happier
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(whereas for an existing human people see worse lives as a harm and imagine education helps that somehow)
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