Thank you for this. I would only caution that we should be vigilant when it comes to poor reasoning disguised as “intuition”. Most EAs would reject out of hand someone’s intuition that people of a certain nationality or ethnic group or gender matter less, even if they claim that it’s about suffering intensity as opposed to xenophobia, racism or sexism. Yet intuitions about the moral weight of nonhuman animals that often seem to have been plucked out of thin air, without any justification provided, seem to get a pass, especially when they’re from “high-status” individuals.
Thank you for this. I would only caution that we should be vigilant when it comes to poor reasoning disguised as “intuition”. Most EAs would reject out of hand someone’s intuition that people of a certain nationality or ethnic group or gender matter less, even if they claim that it’s about suffering intensity as opposed to xenophobia, racism or sexism. Yet intuitions about the moral weight of nonhuman animals that often seem to have been plucked out of thin air, without any justification provided, seem to get a pass, especially when they’re from “high-status” individuals.
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