Accidentally hit the comment button with a line of text written. Hit the retract button so i could start again. AND IT FUCKING JUST PUT LINES THROUGH IT WHAT THE FUCK.
That is to say, How do I unretract?
“When I buy bacon, I change those figures in such a way as to trigger a (negligibly) higher number of pigs being slaughtered.”
But is my buying bacon actually recorded? It’s possible that those calculations are done on sufficiently large scales that my personally eating meat causes no pig suffering. As in, were i to stop, would any fewer pigs suffer.
It’s not lives and deaths i’m particularly concerned with. The trade off I’m currently thinking about is pig suffering vs bacon. And if pig suffering is the same whether i eat already dead pigs I’ll probably feel better about it.
Scope insensitivity would be not taking into account personal impact on pig suffering I suppose. Seeing as there’s already vast amounts I’m tempted to label anything I could do about it “pointless” or similiar.
Which bypasses the actual utility calculation (otherwise known as actual thinking, shutting up and multiplying.)
The point is I need to have a think about the expected consequences of buying meat, eating meat someone else has bought, eating animals i find by the road etc. Do supermarkets record how much meat is eaten? How important is eating meat for my nutrition (and or convenience?) etc.
Accidentally hit the comment button with a line of text written. Hit the retract button so i could start again. AND IT FUCKING JUST PUT LINES THROUGH IT WHAT THE FUCK.
That is to say, How do I unretract?
“When I buy bacon, I change those figures in such a way as to trigger a (negligibly) higher number of pigs being slaughtered.”
But is my buying bacon actually recorded? It’s possible that those calculations are done on sufficiently large scales that my personally eating meat causes no pig suffering. As in, were i to stop, would any fewer pigs suffer.
It’s not lives and deaths i’m particularly concerned with. The trade off I’m currently thinking about is pig suffering vs bacon. And if pig suffering is the same whether i eat already dead pigs I’ll probably feel better about it.
Scope insensitivity would be not taking into account personal impact on pig suffering I suppose. Seeing as there’s already vast amounts I’m tempted to label anything I could do about it “pointless” or similiar.
Which bypasses the actual utility calculation (otherwise known as actual thinking, shutting up and multiplying.)
The point is I need to have a think about the expected consequences of buying meat, eating meat someone else has bought, eating animals i find by the road etc. Do supermarkets record how much meat is eaten? How important is eating meat for my nutrition (and or convenience?) etc.
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