I happen to care about animal suffering, and I am as baffled as you about the move of caring about animal suffering for explicitly anti-speciecist reasons yet dismissing wild animal suffering. Seems pretty inconsistent.
Maybe it originates from a sort of wishful thinking? As in “looks intractable, therefore I wish it were unimportant, therefore it is”.
It’s that most people who care about animal suffering don’t care about animal suffering from first principles. It’s belief as attire. Actually caring about animal suffering in a principled manner leads to bizarre conclusions.
I happen to care about animal suffering, and I am as baffled as you about the move of caring about animal suffering for explicitly anti-speciecist reasons yet dismissing wild animal suffering. Seems pretty inconsistent.
Maybe it originates from a sort of wishful thinking? As in “looks intractable, therefore I wish it were unimportant, therefore it is”.
It’s that most people who care about animal suffering don’t care about animal suffering from first principles. It’s belief as attire. Actually caring about animal suffering in a principled manner leads to bizarre conclusions.