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It is possible to have kids up until menopause, and you underestimate the need for older women to help with childminding and raising. Having all young women who are only having their first baby - unless they come from relatively big families or families where the extended clan had a lot of babies, so they've seen how to raise a newborn - will run into a lot of problems over "is this colic? will the child die? what do I do?". If you have three of the four women constantly pregnant, you'll appreciate having the fourth woman to help out with all the babies.
And being Native American, she might have experience with kids as needed.
Plus female intuition, like Ann Hathaway in Interstellar, that's always useful in space.
You could just stagger the pregnancies appropriately so that they're not all incapacitated at the same time, or skip a pregnancy cycle occasionally when the workload becomes too much, for the same effect. It's strictly inferior to the reproductively useful picks. Of course this is all besides the point of this appalling thought experiment. I can't believe we utilitarians get shit for saving people in thought experiments, and this is what the empathic virtuous folx come up with.
Yeah, but it's not about saving people, is the problem. It's just another variant on the lifeboat scenario. This is about "examine your unconscious biases, bigot" and so who cares if the pregnant white woman is better for populating a new planet, your sin is that you picked a WHITE woman over a BIPOC minority. Or a differently abled person, or a sufferer of ageism.
If an averagely intelligent person can't figure out what answer they are supposed to give, as opposed to a reasonable answer for the scenario, then they're not that smart after all 😁 Or at least, not aware of predators in the vicinity, so survival chances are lower.
Anyway, if rationalist philosophers get to have the trolley problem to play with, let the DEIB set have their pet problems too!
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