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by ngpio 4507 days ago
> There's just no way spending a million dollars to raise a fetus up to the age of zero passes any kind of cost-benefit analysis. The cost of replacing the thing is much, much lower.

Second-order emotional (and nth-order social and monetary) costs are part of a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis.

The cost of even thinking in terms of "replacing the thing" is predominantly the cost of complete societal ostracism.