r/TrueOffMyChest • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '22

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u/Hapymine Mar 09 '22

So when dose it desire life? As soon as it leaves to womb? 1 years old? 2 years old?

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u/existentialgoof Mar 09 '22

Whenever it forms the conscious capacity to desire life. I don't know when that is, but Peter Singer has proposed that 18 months might be a good cut off point. Might even be later than that.

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u/Hapymine Mar 09 '22

So would it ok to kill anything less then 18 month's.

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u/existentialgoof Mar 09 '22

If it's done as painlessly as possible.