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Cold Button Issues, you need a better name! I responded to an article about increasing fertility being welfare maximizing, and suggesting that utilitarians should be pro-life on one of his articles [1]. Recently, I did something similar to what he discussed in the part about big families and advocated for being pro-life if you are utilitarian. [2] I seem to be getting a lot of intuitionist arguments: "This also implies [X]" with the implication that [X] is terrible or repugnant. But why not shut up and multiply? Someone give me some reasonable numbers becauase it's hard to see how pro-life doesn't win out.
Cold Button Issues, you need a better name! I responded to an article about increasing fertility being welfare maximizing, and suggesting that utilitarians should be pro-life on one of his articles [1]. Recently, I did something similar to what he discussed in the part about big families and advocated for being pro-life if you are utilitarian. [2] I seem to be getting a lot of intuitionist arguments: "This also implies [X]" with the implication that [X] is terrible or repugnant. But why not shut up and multiply? Someone give me some reasonable numbers becauase it's hard to see how pro-life doesn't win out.
[1] https://coldbuttonissues.substack.com/p/one-million-missing-children/comments
[2] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-233/comment/7805444