Ok, I’ll bite—who was doing the predation, and what are you suggesting ought to happen to those creatures?
I agree that adding preventable new suffering is bad, but I don’t follow that into any obviousness that it’s good to meddle deeply in nature’s feedback loops. To oversimplify, let’s imagine a button that releases a virus which painlessly inflicts all living beings with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain. I think it would be bad to push that button, but the way you’re describing suffering creates a mental model for me in which you would push it. I’ve probably missed something about your perspective that makes it seem obvious to you why that wouldn’t be the case, but I hope the example highlights which important bit turns out to need to be said out loud to get the idea across to others.
Ok, I’ll bite—who was doing the predation, and what are you suggesting ought to happen to those creatures?
I agree that adding preventable new suffering is bad, but I don’t follow that into any obviousness that it’s good to meddle deeply in nature’s feedback loops. To oversimplify, let’s imagine a button that releases a virus which painlessly inflicts all living beings with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain. I think it would be bad to push that button, but the way you’re describing suffering creates a mental model for me in which you would push it. I’ve probably missed something about your perspective that makes it seem obvious to you why that wouldn’t be the case, but I hope the example highlights which important bit turns out to need to be said out loud to get the idea across to others.