Short Online Texts Thread
RobertLumley
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Why would you downvote a meetup post?
Thank you! Was just looking for #1 and wasn’t sure what it was called. Searched LW for “dragon sacrifice”. This came up. Wonderful.
“Our vision is inevitably contracted, and the whole horizon may contain much which will compose a very different picture.”
Cheney Bros v. Doris Silk Corporation, New York Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
What kind of difference?
My opposition to meat varies linearly with the intelligence of the animal. I’m much more OK with fish than I am pigs.
Depending on how ostentatiously (Which I know isn’t the right word, but I think conveys what I’m trying to evoke?) you were eating the meat, it would bother me. The type of meat would also make a difference to me. I know vegetarians who are bothered if you eat any meat near them. They are obviously polite about it, (I certainly never say anything) but it might bother people more than you realize.
Hey, that’s my internet/video game moniker. Funny how that happens. I generally drop the underscore though.
My evaluation is very much the same as yours, in that Hanson is way off on the efficiency of meat vs other foods. My conclusion is just that he is ignorant of the facts though, not trolling.
The name of that alone makes it worth downloading.
I think it is in a similar vein, certainly, but I think it’s different in some ways too. For example, I don’t think most people would accept cannibalism even if the people (victims? food?) led very happy lives, perhaps like a system where people were pampered in spas all day before being killed for food. But the logical extension of Hanson’s argument is that this would be a great system. Assuming that there was a remote economic demand for human meat, which, thankfully, there isn’t.
Also, I think cannibalism engages people’s sense of moral intuition much moreso than simply having a lot of marginally happy people does.
January 2013 Media Thread
Please note that per last month’s poll (although it was close) three new threads were added this month, the Fanfiction thread, the Online videos thread, and the Short Online Texts thread. In full disclosure, I have a slight preference for not having these be threads, since it means I have to look up three more thread names and make three more comments, so I’ll reconsider whether or not to keep making these based on use and feedback.
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