“I care about X’s pain” is mostly a statement about X, not a statement about pain. I don’t care about fish and I care about humans. You may not share this moral preference, but are you claiming that you don’t even understand it?
No, I have a lot of biases like this: the halo effect makes me think that humans’ ability to do math makes our suffering more important, “what you see is all there is” allows me to believe that slaughterhouses which operate far away must be morally acceptable, and so forth.
Anyway, fish suffering isn’t a make-or-break decision. People very frequently have the opportunity to choose a bean burrito over a chicken one (or even a beef burrito over a chicken one), and from what Peter has presented here it seems like this is an extremely effective way to reduce suffering.
“I care about X’s pain” is mostly a statement about X, not a statement about pain. I don’t care about fish and I care about humans. You may not share this moral preference, but are you claiming that you don’t even understand it?
No, I have a lot of biases like this: the halo effect makes me think that humans’ ability to do math makes our suffering more important, “what you see is all there is” allows me to believe that slaughterhouses which operate far away must be morally acceptable, and so forth.
Anyway, fish suffering isn’t a make-or-break decision. People very frequently have the opportunity to choose a bean burrito over a chicken one (or even a beef burrito over a chicken one), and from what Peter has presented here it seems like this is an extremely effective way to reduce suffering.