Thank you for maintaining such an interesting, eclectic set of reading materials on the topic. I’ve already skimmed through a few of your suggested readings and I’m sold on your general approach. This is going to be something I keep coming back to over time.
The tl;dr is that if you fall into the cohort that could likely adopt a child, your parenting decisions aren’t going to make much of an impact, beyond affecting your kid’s memories of their childhood and their relationship with you. And that doesn’t mean parents should become apathetic, but that it’s better to care about expressing warmth and kindness instead of stressing about achievement.
There's a hypothetical world in which organ distribution is so efficient and prevalent that the average fatal car crash saves net lives. What a strange kind of "trolley problem" that raises...
