I was vegetarian for a while in high school–oddly enough, less for reducing-suffering ethical reasons than for “it costs fewer resources to produce enough plants to feed the world population than to produce enough meat, as animals have to be fed plants and are a low-efficiency conversion of plant calories, so in order to better use the planet’s resources, everyone should eat more plants and less meat.”
Oddly, this sentence is more or less exactly true for me as well. Only on LessWrong...
Oddly, this sentence is more or less exactly true for me as well. Only on LessWrong...
That reasoning does not seem to be either unique to or particularly prevalent on lesswrong.
Fair enough. I’ve never encountered it elsewhere, myself.
(Typically it is expressed as an additional excuse/justification for the political and personal position being taken for unrelated reasons.)