I think any human with time-consistent preferences prefers A to B for some margin? The question is how much margin.
Don’t understand your abortion analogy at all I’m afraid.
I did introduce myself as ‘apparent moral alien’! - though for the reasons in the rest of my comment I don’t think I’m all that rare. Until quite recently I’d have been confident I was in a supermajority, but I’m less sure of that now, and I weakly entertain the hypothesis it’s a minority.
I think any human with time-consistent preferences prefers A to B for some margin? The question is how much margin.
Don’t understand your abortion analogy at all I’m afraid.
I did introduce myself as ‘apparent moral alien’! - though for the reasons in the rest of my comment I don’t think I’m all that rare. Until quite recently I’d have been confident I was in a supermajority, but I’m less sure of that now, and I weakly entertain the hypothesis it’s a minority.
You are ending a potential future life in exchange for preserving a quality of present life.