It would be weird for me to respond to Qiaochu’s request for an argument defending the moral significance of animal suffering by defending the idea that only human suffering is fundamental.
Not if you agreed with Qiaochu that no adequately strong reasons for caring about any non-human suffering have yet been presented. There’s no rule against agreeing with an OP.
Fair point, though we might be reading Qiaochu differently. I took him to be saying “I know of no reasons to take animal suffering as morally significant, though this is consistant with my treating it as if it is and with its actually being so.” I suppose you took him to be saying something more like “I don’t think there are any reasons to take animal suffering as morally significant.”
I don’t have good reasons to think my reading is better. I wouldn’t want to try and defend Qiaochu’s view if the second reading represents it.
Not if you agreed with Qiaochu that no adequately strong reasons for caring about any non-human suffering have yet been presented. There’s no rule against agreeing with an OP.
Fair point, though we might be reading Qiaochu differently. I took him to be saying “I know of no reasons to take animal suffering as morally significant, though this is consistant with my treating it as if it is and with its actually being so.” I suppose you took him to be saying something more like “I don’t think there are any reasons to take animal suffering as morally significant.”
I don’t have good reasons to think my reading is better. I wouldn’t want to try and defend Qiaochu’s view if the second reading represents it.