Abstaining from some but not all animals seems maybe to cut against Richard’s points about the value of Schilling fences/quasi-deontological commitments against eating all animals.
On the other hard, I (and many other EAs I’m sure) develop moral identities as people who are capable of nuance and careful consequentialism on moral tradeoffs, so maybe having a very nuanced position on restrictions can help enforce this.
Personally I’ve been lactovegetarian for some years, with an exception for bivalves. I’m considering adding beef back to my diet for reasons raised above, but am unsure about both the object-level stance and also whether it’s worth investing any more thought into this (relatively nonconsequential in the grand scheme of things) decision.
Abstaining from some but not all animals seems maybe to cut against Richard’s points about the value of Schilling fences/quasi-deontological commitments against eating all animals.
On the other hard, I (and many other EAs I’m sure) develop moral identities as people who are capable of nuance and careful consequentialism on moral tradeoffs, so maybe having a very nuanced position on restrictions can help enforce this.
Personally I’ve been lactovegetarian for some years, with an exception for bivalves. I’m considering adding beef back to my diet for reasons raised above, but am unsure about both the object-level stance and also whether it’s worth investing any more thought into this (relatively nonconsequential in the grand scheme of things) decision.