It’s simple: I am willing to create as many factory-farmed chickens as you like for a QALY. A million? Sure. 3^^^3? Sure. I just don’t care about the chickens; they are not a factor in the calculation; I am getting a free QALY. So my answer to the first question is “infinity”.
My answer to the second question is “indifferent”, although depending on how you construe “suffering”, it could also be “No”.
I have genuine uncertainty as to the nature of farmed chicken suffering—enough that I’d say it’s bad to create your average meat-farmed chicken—otherwise I’d be right there with you at 10^20 or something similarly ridiculous.
The suggestion to genetically engineer suffering-knockout chicken seems a good one (though I’d have some residual uncertainty even then).
It’s simple: I am willing to create as many factory-farmed chickens as you like for a QALY. A million? Sure. 3^^^3? Sure. I just don’t care about the chickens; they are not a factor in the calculation; I am getting a free QALY. So my answer to the first question is “infinity”.
My answer to the second question is “indifferent”, although depending on how you construe “suffering”, it could also be “No”.
I have genuine uncertainty as to the nature of farmed chicken suffering—enough that I’d say it’s bad to create your average meat-farmed chicken—otherwise I’d be right there with you at 10^20 or something similarly ridiculous.
The suggestion to genetically engineer suffering-knockout chicken seems a good one (though I’d have some residual uncertainty even then).
Sure, fair enough, I was just saying that the polls don’t have any way for me to represent my position.