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Effective Altruism with Kelsey Piper

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The Democratic Party's View on Abortion

Aaron: A lot of effective altruists are worried about their repugnant or they think about it. They tend to retreat to this kind of weird idea where they say well like maybe it's not abortion's not good but should we really expend money on banning it, he says. Aaron: It all just seems like they're trying to avoid the obvious implication of their view which is any time and money spent on Planned Parenthood is a waste. He adds that even if abortion on the margins did improve overall utility would be implausible given the cost of there not being another life in the world. "I find very valuable and rare in people is the tendency to look at the world and say who

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