Intuitively, I completely agree that killing a random baby is socially harmful.
The example is interesting because it’s tricky to “do the math” on. (Hard to arrive at a believable long-run cost of a totalitarian dictatorship; hard to arrive at a believable long-run cost of instituting a social norm of infanticide.)
Intuitively, I completely agree that killing a random baby is socially harmful.
The example is interesting because it’s tricky to “do the math” on. (Hard to arrive at a believable long-run cost of a totalitarian dictatorship; hard to arrive at a believable long-run cost of instituting a social norm of infanticide.)