I value a life of suffering more than no life at all.
Just so I’m clear… are you saying that you predict you would never want to end your life if you predicted that it would be a life of suffering? Or that you might want to end your life in that case, but you currently believe it would be better if you were unable to? Or something else?
I never said anything about the life in question being mine. To be honest, I don’t value personally experiencing life all that much. I meant that I generally value the lives of other beings even if much of their lives involve suffering. Of course that is a ridiculously generalized statement, but the probability of a creature’s happiness will usually be infinitely greater if that creature actually exists.
In any case, my main point was that a person can value the feelings of a being and still rationally decide to allow that being to be slaughtered so that the person can eat it. I don’t think I would have that much more of a problem eating tasty human meat than tasty chicken meat, but I could be wrong, seeing as how I’ve never eaten human.
I agree you didn’t say the life in question was yours. You said that a life of suffering was more valuable than no life, from which I inferred (apparently incorrectly) that your life of suffering is more valuable than you not having life at all.
Just so I’m clear… are you saying that you predict you would never want to end your life if you predicted that it would be a life of suffering? Or that you might want to end your life in that case, but you currently believe it would be better if you were unable to? Or something else?
I never said anything about the life in question being mine. To be honest, I don’t value personally experiencing life all that much. I meant that I generally value the lives of other beings even if much of their lives involve suffering. Of course that is a ridiculously generalized statement, but the probability of a creature’s happiness will usually be infinitely greater if that creature actually exists.
In any case, my main point was that a person can value the feelings of a being and still rationally decide to allow that being to be slaughtered so that the person can eat it. I don’t think I would have that much more of a problem eating tasty human meat than tasty chicken meat, but I could be wrong, seeing as how I’ve never eaten human.
I agree you didn’t say the life in question was yours. You said that a life of suffering was more valuable than no life, from which I inferred (apparently incorrectly) that your life of suffering is more valuable than you not having life at all.