Eh, what the heck. Pretty sure I have one, even if I’m not sure whether saying it helps in any way.
“Vegetarianism is morally required. Trivially so. Producing meat involves large amounts of harm, and we would recognize that in most other situations. Worse still, it is actually quite easy and safe for everyone in most cultures.”
[Regardless of the truth of this, I have definitely seen people’s ADM triggered by it. It’s kind of scary, actually.]
ETA: Oh, and slavery—you know the type I mean—seems likeit was a very localized ADM-creator. But I expect any LW-ers who are in favor it are such for … other reasons.
I’d expect that if you ask a lot of people to post things that are true but which others deny for spurious reasons, you’d get the occasional thing which is true and denied for spurious reasons, and a whole lot of things which are believed with utter certainly and sincerity by that one person and are just wrong.
In other words, any idea listed here, including vegetarianism, is one which we ought to be skeptical of just by virtue of it being listed here. It’s a simple Bayseian update on the probability that any given idea is right, given that this thread will predominantly be used to post wrong ideas.
Eh, what the heck. Pretty sure I have one, even if I’m not sure whether saying it helps in any way.
“Vegetarianism is morally required. Trivially so. Producing meat involves large amounts of harm, and we would recognize that in most other situations. Worse still, it is actually quite easy and safe for everyone in most cultures.”
[Regardless of the truth of this, I have definitely seen people’s ADM triggered by it. It’s kind of scary, actually.]
ETA: Oh, and slavery—you know the type I mean—seems likeit was a very localized ADM-creator. But I expect any LW-ers who are in favor it are such for … other reasons.
I’d expect that if you ask a lot of people to post things that are true but which others deny for spurious reasons, you’d get the occasional thing which is true and denied for spurious reasons, and a whole lot of things which are believed with utter certainly and sincerity by that one person and are just wrong.
In other words, any idea listed here, including vegetarianism, is one which we ought to be skeptical of just by virtue of it being listed here. It’s a simple Bayseian update on the probability that any given idea is right, given that this thread will predominantly be used to post wrong ideas.