The Buddhist said: we should not kill sentient beings. But I haven't been able to give up meat altogether, so I only eat a bit of beef every week. Killing a single animal gives me enough meat for many months. I would never touch shrimp, so many corpses in a single plate!
The Effective Altruist replied: Based on my carefully constructed priors, and the best animal-consciousness science I could find, I'm 98.7% certain that there is more suffering involved, and more years of adjusted conscious existence lost, in the slaughter of a single cow, than in a year's supply of shrimp. Bring on the Pad Thai!
They argued and they argued, but they could not come to a point of agreement. Eventually they got hungry, went to a restaurant, and out of respect for each other's beliefs, they both ordered tofu.
Unbeknown to both, the proverbial God got the last laugh, because each single soy plant is actually a fully divine Avatar, consciously offering itself as food, and physically suffering as it is being cut, cooked and eaten.
Struggling with shrimp... third shrimpact... seduced by shrimp... I recently spoke with a woman who said she vacuums up the ladybugs in her house, and I was horrified because ladybugs are beautiful. Is there a form of animal rights were we ascribe value to animals according to aesthetic signals? Like we feed an image of a peacock into an AI generator, and based on the intensity of color and complexity of fractal symmetry, we fine people for causing harm to peacocks? Rather than using neurons as the measurement of pain and suffering? I also think we should develop olfactory machines that detect fecal matter, and if a farm animal is not afforded fresh air, we fine the farmer by parts per million of fecal matter. Same with farmed fish and shrimp. How pedantic am I allowed to get with this?
I am named after Forrest Gump, who is clearly one of the most evil people in history. And don't get me started on who that guy is named after!
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The Buddhist said: we should not kill sentient beings. But I haven't been able to give up meat altogether, so I only eat a bit of beef every week. Killing a single animal gives me enough meat for many months. I would never touch shrimp, so many corpses in a single plate!
The Effective Altruist replied: Based on my carefully constructed priors, and the best animal-consciousness science I could find, I'm 98.7% certain that there is more suffering involved, and more years of adjusted conscious existence lost, in the slaughter of a single cow, than in a year's supply of shrimp. Bring on the Pad Thai!
They argued and they argued, but they could not come to a point of agreement. Eventually they got hungry, went to a restaurant, and out of respect for each other's beliefs, they both ordered tofu.
Unbeknown to both, the proverbial God got the last laugh, because each single soy plant is actually a fully divine Avatar, consciously offering itself as food, and physically suffering as it is being cut, cooked and eaten.
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Struggling with shrimp... third shrimpact... seduced by shrimp... I recently spoke with a woman who said she vacuums up the ladybugs in her house, and I was horrified because ladybugs are beautiful. Is there a form of animal rights were we ascribe value to animals according to aesthetic signals? Like we feed an image of a peacock into an AI generator, and based on the intensity of color and complexity of fractal symmetry, we fine people for causing harm to peacocks? Rather than using neurons as the measurement of pain and suffering? I also think we should develop olfactory machines that detect fecal matter, and if a farm animal is not afforded fresh air, we fine the farmer by parts per million of fecal matter. Same with farmed fish and shrimp. How pedantic am I allowed to get with this?