If paying for advertising costs only $11 per vegetarian-year, paying money directly to people is probably a bad idea.
If you would get more than $11/year worth of enjoyment out of continuing to eat meat, why not give $11/year to convince someone else to not eat meat for you? Or give $50/year and be on the safe side?
I don’t understand what “be on the safe side” is supposed to mean in that sentence.
“If paying for advertising costs only $11 per vegetarian-year, paying money directly to people is probably a bad idea.”
Right. I was suggesting the advertising, and sloppily describing it as paying people to go vegetarian.
“I don’t understand what ‘be on the safe side’ is supposed to mean in that sentence.”
If you have doubts about the $11 number, which is reasonable as it contains quite a lot of guesswork, you might say want to give more to increase the chances you’re giving at least enough to make a vegetarian year.
If you have doubts about the $11 number, which is reasonable as it contains quite a lot of guesswork, you might say want to give more to increase the chances you’re giving at least enough to make a vegetarian year.
Why should “giving at least enough to make a vegetarian year” be the goal?
Because we’re comparing to maybe going vegetarian yourself. Yes, it might be that both are silly, but this post is just arguing that one dominates the other.
If paying for advertising costs only $11 per vegetarian-year, paying money directly to people is probably a bad idea.
I don’t understand what “be on the safe side” is supposed to mean in that sentence.
“If paying for advertising costs only $11 per vegetarian-year, paying money directly to people is probably a bad idea.”
Right. I was suggesting the advertising, and sloppily describing it as paying people to go vegetarian.
“I don’t understand what ‘be on the safe side’ is supposed to mean in that sentence.”
If you have doubts about the $11 number, which is reasonable as it contains quite a lot of guesswork, you might say want to give more to increase the chances you’re giving at least enough to make a vegetarian year.
Why should “giving at least enough to make a vegetarian year” be the goal?
Because we’re comparing to maybe going vegetarian yourself. Yes, it might be that both are silly, but this post is just arguing that one dominates the other.