> I never, ever want to tell them that their child's life is worth less than my freedom from inconvenience. This is why a healthy society needs social institut

> I never, ever want to tell them that their child's life is worth less than my freedom from inconvenience. This is why a healthy society needs social institutions which insulate people from having to constantly defend freedoms and other pro-social behaviors from emotional appeals. The fact that we are so vulnerable to such appeals causes scaling problems in societies as large as ours today.