I don’t think I need too much data to assign broadly negative values to lives that are unusually brutish, nasty and short compared to either non-existence or a hypothetical natural existence.
I don’t think you can make that decision so easily. They’re protected from predators, well-fed, and probably healthier than they would be in the wild. (About health, the main point against is that diseases spread more rapidly. But farmers have an incentive to prevent that, and they have antibiotics and access to minimal veterinary treatment.)
‘no pig’ > ‘happy pig + surprise axe’
This leads me to conclusions I disagree with—like if a person is murdered, then their life had negative value.
I don’t think you can make that decision so easily. They’re protected from predators, well-fed, and probably healthier than they would be in the wild. (About health, the main point against is that diseases spread more rapidly. But farmers have an incentive to prevent that, and they have antibiotics and access to minimal veterinary treatment.)
This leads me to conclusions I disagree with—like if a person is murdered, then their life had negative value.