Thank you for pointing this out. I deliberately chose a single animal for the thought experiment because I didn’t want to argue that I know whether suffering makes up a large part of their lives, but rather that no one can know. That notwithstanding, apparently there are people out there who are contemplating killing billions of invertebrates for their own supposed benefit.
Thank you for pointing this out. I deliberately chose a single animal for the thought experiment because I didn’t want to argue that I know whether suffering makes up a large part of their lives, but rather that no one can know. That notwithstanding, apparently there are people out there who are contemplating killing billions of invertebrates for their own supposed benefit.