Related thought 1: I think some tension can be defused here by avoiding the framing “should EAs be vegetarian?”, since answering “no” makes it feel like “EAs should not be vegetarian”, when really it seems to me that it just implies that I can’t put any costs incurred in my Altruism Budget, the same as costs I incur by doing other mundane good things.
Related thought 1: I think some tension can be defused here by avoiding the framing “should EAs be vegetarian?”, since answering “no” makes it feel like “EAs should not be vegetarian”, when really it seems to me that it just implies that I can’t put any costs incurred in my Altruism Budget, the same as costs I incur by doing other mundane good things.
Yes, ‘are altruistic people obligated to become vegetarian?’ might be better