There's plenty of times when people miscarry, or otherwise a fertilized does not come to term as a healthy baby. If you really thought this was true, you would literally convict people of murder for doing abortions. And it becomes complicated because the world only has a single direction of time. So whenever we talk about these questions, we are extrapolating our knowledge beyond the actual world, which is always a dangerous thing to do.
Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.
These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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