The reason religion is so powerful

[John 6IX Breezy]

He doesn't have too. his scenario holds up as is as does the central point.

There is a shift from the logic-based approach of Nagel's argument, to an affect-based approach in Fake Messiah's scenario. And perhaps we are evolutionarily wired to value the survival of babies in ways that we are not for the survival of zygotes. Given that he is questioning the logic of the Nagel argument, his formulation doesn't quite address that: The logical answer might be the zygotes, but the intuitive answer might be the baby.

(Note that my object permanence argument also predicts this outcome.)