Mmm okay a bit confused by the thrust of the first bit. Is it that you wish to set yourself apart from my view because you see it unavoidably leading to untenable positions (like self-extinguishing)?
Jumping to the rest of it, I liked how you put the latter option for the positioning of the shepard. I’m not sure the feeling out of the “shepard impulse” is something where the full sort of appreciation I think is important has come out.
But I think you’re right to point towards a general libertarian viewpoint as a crux here, because I’m relatively willing to reason through what’s good and bad for the community and work towards designing a world more in line with that vision, even if it’s more choice constrained.
But yeah, the society is a good example to help us figure out where to draw that line. It makes me most immediately wonder: is there anything so bad that you’d want to restrict people from doing it, even if they voluntarily entered into it? Is creating lives one of the key goods to you, such that most forms of lives will be worth just existing?
To answer your last question, it’s the latter, a world where synthetic alternatives and work on ecological stability yields a possibility of a future for predators who no longer must kill for survival. It would certainly mean a lot less cows and chickens exist, but my own conclusions from the above questions lead me to thinking this would be a better world.
Mmm okay a bit confused by the thrust of the first bit. Is it that you wish to set yourself apart from my view because you see it unavoidably leading to untenable positions (like self-extinguishing)?
Jumping to the rest of it, I liked how you put the latter option for the positioning of the shepard. I’m not sure the feeling out of the “shepard impulse” is something where the full sort of appreciation I think is important has come out.
But I think you’re right to point towards a general libertarian viewpoint as a crux here, because I’m relatively willing to reason through what’s good and bad for the community and work towards designing a world more in line with that vision, even if it’s more choice constrained.
But yeah, the society is a good example to help us figure out where to draw that line. It makes me most immediately wonder: is there anything so bad that you’d want to restrict people from doing it, even if they voluntarily entered into it? Is creating lives one of the key goods to you, such that most forms of lives will be worth just existing?
To answer your last question, it’s the latter, a world where synthetic alternatives and work on ecological stability yields a possibility of a future for predators who no longer must kill for survival. It would certainly mean a lot less cows and chickens exist, but my own conclusions from the above questions lead me to thinking this would be a better world.