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#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Why Are Infanticides a Good Idea?

There are foreseeable harms that crop up down many of these paths, right? So you're going to just take, i don't know what your actual thesis was in discussing the moral status of infants versus fetuses. But for some one to spend a lot of time on the question of why the impediments to infanticide are as high as they are could seem to many people to be just a and all too casual prying at the lid of pandora's box. I'm sure there's an argument for the the unconscionable suffering that is allowed to persist certain babies that are bound to die soon. There's an argument for youthanasia there, which most, or many,

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