You say that intuitively it makes sense, but don’t you think that doing whatever leads you to the best outcomes for yourself is the most intuitive thing (no matter the intense downsides it brings to others), and hence caring about insect suffering which doesn’t benefit you is far from intuitive?
To elaborate on “doing whatever leads you to the best outcomes for yourself is the most intuitive thing (no matter the intense downsides it brings to others)” doesn’t mean I think that humans or I would commonly do incredibly immoral things to other humans, as that wouldn’t benefit them due to the negative feelings doing those immoral things would bring.
I believe that the intuition to do whatever benefits you is the same reason that most people simply don’t care about large animals, nevertheless insects.
Most people are like this, although probably not as blunt + use some rationalization (although the exact sentence perfectly describes my take without all the extra fluff I just now mentioned):
“Were the animals that produced the animal products I’m consuming treated wrongly? Probably, but I’m not them so I don’t care and I will happily enjoy the food”
You say that intuitively it makes sense, but don’t you think that doing whatever leads you to the best outcomes for yourself is the most intuitive thing (no matter the intense downsides it brings to others), and hence caring about insect suffering which doesn’t benefit you is far from intuitive?
To elaborate on “doing whatever leads you to the best outcomes for yourself is the most intuitive thing (no matter the intense downsides it brings to others)” doesn’t mean I think that humans or I would commonly do incredibly immoral things to other humans, as that wouldn’t benefit them due to the negative feelings doing those immoral things would bring.
I believe that the intuition to do whatever benefits you is the same reason that most people simply don’t care about large animals, nevertheless insects.
Most people are like this, although probably not as blunt + use some rationalization (although the exact sentence perfectly describes my take without all the extra fluff I just now mentioned):
“Were the animals that produced the animal products I’m consuming treated wrongly? Probably, but I’m not them so I don’t care and I will happily enjoy the food”