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Originally Posted by robayon
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I agree in that my empathy goes up linearly backwards from whatever the max human age is to embryo
Because if we are considering a death, it’s about the max lost life potential
A 110 year old who dies lost no years, they lived far past the human average
A 40 year old who suddenly dies lost out on the second half of their life
A 10 year old who suddenly dies lost out on like 80% of their life
A newborn who dies of CIDS lost out on their entire life
And, let’s use a miscarriage, a baby who dies due to miscarriage lost out on more potential life than any of those above
Now that’s empathy for the death. Not for the parent. Because obviously I am going to have slightly more empathy for a parent who loses a baby or a 10 year old than one who suffers a miscarriage (although obviously I’ll still have it for this) because they had time to become more attached to the child and so their hurt will be deeper
But a lot of Dems, it seems their empathy goes up linearly backwards from max human age down to 1 day old and stops there