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The Planned Parenthood story about the fetus parts was entirely about monetary incentives. It doesn't have to be about people getting rich necessarily.
by humanrebar 9y ago
The Planned Parenthood story about the fetus parts was entirely about monetary incentives. It doesn't have to be about people getting rich necessarily.
- mikeash 9y agoAre you talking about the debunked, misleadingly edited video? If PP’s goal were to make money from abortions, they’d stop offering contraceptives. The fact that essentially nobody argues for abortion but against contraceptives is an easy proof that essentially nobody favors abortion for monetary reasons.
- humanrebar 9y agoSure. Abortion providers have no incentives to make sure abortion is subsidized and lightly regulated. Besides, the inability to entertain the thought experiment is basically my point. The result of the skeptical deliberation is beside the point. Everyone is subject to cognitive dissonance and perverse incentives. Money is just a particularly easy to quantify incentive.
- mikeash 9y agoI entertained it. The result is above. I imagine lots of people are capable of entertaining it. That they don’t reach the bizarre conclusion you seem to think they should doesn’t mean they haven’t tried. It’s true that everyone is subject to these things. That does not mean that facts don’t matter, that every opinion is equally valid, or that every belief is due to them.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> The Planned Parenthood story about the fetus parts was entirely about monetary incentives. Well, sure, but the story wasn't true so what it was or was not about had no bearing on reality.