The biggest problem I have with ‘dead baby’ arguments is that I value them significantly below the value of a high functioning adult. Given the opportunity to save one or the other, I would pick the adult, and I don’t find that babies have a whole lot of intrinsic value until they’re properly programmed.
The biggest problem I have with ‘dead baby’ arguments is that I value them significantly below the value of a high functioning adult. Given the opportunity to save one or the other, I would pick the adult, and I don’t find that babies have a whole lot of intrinsic value until they’re properly programmed.
If you don’t take care of babies, you’ll eventually run out of adults. If you don’t have adults, the babies won’t be taken care of.
I don’t know what a balanced approach to the problem would look like.