In 2, we’d ask a human about their own preferences concerning their own suffering and their other desires, and average over multiple humans.
The weight we give to nonhuman animals’ desires relative to humans depends on 3, their revealed preferences, or the weights nonhuman animals give to their own desires through their actual choices/behaviours, which we can observe, and 1, which tells you how to make tradeoffs between humans’ revealed preferences and animals reflective preferences by identifying something to normalize both scales by.
Basically, we have two separate welfare scales: humans’ reflective preferences as their own welfare (2), and nonhuman animal species’ revealed preferences as their own welfare (3), and we use 1 to put them on a common scale.
I’ve made some edits to the post to try to make this a bit clearer.
Thank you! :)
In 2, we’d ask a human about their own preferences concerning their own suffering and their other desires, and average over multiple humans.
The weight we give to nonhuman animals’ desires relative to humans depends on 3, their revealed preferences, or the weights nonhuman animals give to their own desires through their actual choices/behaviours, which we can observe, and 1, which tells you how to make tradeoffs between humans’ revealed preferences and animals reflective preferences by identifying something to normalize both scales by.
Basically, we have two separate welfare scales: humans’ reflective preferences as their own welfare (2), and nonhuman animal species’ revealed preferences as their own welfare (3), and we use 1 to put them on a common scale.
I’ve made some edits to the post to try to make this a bit clearer.
Thanks, I get it now