putting pictures of free animals on packages containing factory farmed animal flesh
Well, yes, that’s called marketing, it’s like the antithesis of truth seeking.
The cure to hypocrisy is not more hypocrisy and lies but of opposite sign: that’s the kind of naive first order consequentialism that leads people to cynicism instead. The fundamental problem is that out of fear that people would reasonably go for a compromise (e.g. keep eating meat but less of it and only from free range animals) some vegans decide to just pile on the arguments, true or false, until anyone who believed them all and had a minimum of sense would go vegan instantly. But that completely denies the agency and moral ability of everyone else, and underestimates the possibility that you may be wrong. As a general rule, “my moral calculus is correct, therefore I will skew the data so that everyone else comes to the same conclusions as me” is a bad principle.
I agree in principle, though someone has to actually create a community of people who track the truth in order for this to be effective and not be outcompeted by other communities. When working individually, people don’t have the resources to untangle the deception in society due to its scale.
Well, yes, that’s called marketing, it’s like the antithesis of truth seeking.
The cure to hypocrisy is not more hypocrisy and lies but of opposite sign: that’s the kind of naive first order consequentialism that leads people to cynicism instead. The fundamental problem is that out of fear that people would reasonably go for a compromise (e.g. keep eating meat but less of it and only from free range animals) some vegans decide to just pile on the arguments, true or false, until anyone who believed them all and had a minimum of sense would go vegan instantly. But that completely denies the agency and moral ability of everyone else, and underestimates the possibility that you may be wrong. As a general rule, “my moral calculus is correct, therefore I will skew the data so that everyone else comes to the same conclusions as me” is a bad principle.
I agree in principle, though someone has to actually create a community of people who track the truth in order for this to be effective and not be outcompeted by other communities. When working individually, people don’t have the resources to untangle the deception in society due to its scale.