This definitely wasn’t implying that animal suffering is the only thing that matters about animal existence. People who believe that major action would be taken to end factory farming and allevaite wild animal suffering (in proportion to the amount they think those matter) would agree with the statement, while negative utilitarian beliefs wouldn’t imply that.
To me, “animal suffering will not persist” implies that animal suffering would drop to zero—and, since all life contains some possibility of suffering, this implies that animal life would drop to zero.
I’m glad to hear that wasn’t the meaning you intended, and I hope that the others who voted on the poll were voting on your intended meaning rather than the one I got!
This definitely wasn’t implying that animal suffering is the only thing that matters about animal existence. People who believe that major action would be taken to end factory farming and allevaite wild animal suffering (in proportion to the amount they think those matter) would agree with the statement, while negative utilitarian beliefs wouldn’t imply that.
To me, “animal suffering will not persist” implies that animal suffering would drop to zero—and, since all life contains some possibility of suffering, this implies that animal life would drop to zero.
I’m glad to hear that wasn’t the meaning you intended, and I hope that the others who voted on the poll were voting on your intended meaning rather than the one I got!