But the animal representatives, even if they aren’t thrilled by retaining another omnivore, have more pressing priorities than trying to help animals by eliminating meat-eaters one by one.
Is it that obvious? I find it hard to come up with interventions that reduce farmed animal suffering (and farmed animal suffering only, ignoring all the rest) more robustly than “minimize the number of entities that incidentally perpetuate this farmed animal suffering”. I feel like this should actually be pretty high up the list for someone who strictly spotlights farmed animals (like the farmed animal representatives are supposed to in your spotlighting parliament, if I understand correctly).
Why don’t the managers of the Animal Welfare Fund support preventing the existence of more potential meat-eaters, then? (via, e.g., increasing x-risks.) I presume because
most of their biggest donors don’t spotlight farmed animals, are concerned about effects on other things, and would stop donating to the fund if the managers were to do that.
the fund managers themselves, like most farmed animal people, also don’t spotlight farmed animals and are concerned about effects on other things.
Curious if you agree.
For the moral trade between the representatives of human victims of malaria and farmed animal representatives to be fair, in your setup, the preferences of the latter would have to actually stoplight farmed animals the same way the former spotlights human victims of malaria. I.e., the preferences of farmed animal representatives in your spotlighting parliament should not be those of real farmed animal advocates who are not spotlighting farmed animals (otherwise, they would obviously be pro-x-risks and stuff despite the downsides on other beings, the same way the representatives of human malaria victims are anti-poverty despite the meat-eater pb).
Interesting! This resembles Michael St. Jules’ hedging proposal.
Is it that obvious? I find it hard to come up with interventions that reduce farmed animal suffering (and farmed animal suffering only, ignoring all the rest) more robustly than “minimize the number of entities that incidentally perpetuate this farmed animal suffering”. I feel like this should actually be pretty high up the list for someone who strictly spotlights farmed animals (like the farmed animal representatives are supposed to in your spotlighting parliament, if I understand correctly).
Why don’t the managers of the Animal Welfare Fund support preventing the existence of more potential meat-eaters, then? (via, e.g., increasing x-risks.) I presume because
most of their biggest donors don’t spotlight farmed animals, are concerned about effects on other things, and would stop donating to the fund if the managers were to do that.
the fund managers themselves, like most farmed animal people, also don’t spotlight farmed animals and are concerned about effects on other things.
Curious if you agree.
For the moral trade between the representatives of human victims of malaria and farmed animal representatives to be fair, in your setup, the preferences of the latter would have to actually stoplight farmed animals the same way the former spotlights human victims of malaria. I.e., the preferences of farmed animal representatives in your spotlighting parliament should not be those of real farmed animal advocates who are not spotlighting farmed animals (otherwise, they would obviously be pro-x-risks and stuff despite the downsides on other beings, the same way the representatives of human malaria victims are anti-poverty despite the meat-eater pb).