Thanks for clarifying, Wladimir. I will also try to clear up my point. In the same way you seem to prioritise decreasing disabling and excruciating pain much more than decreasing annoying and hurtful pain (in particular, much more than justified by pain intensities), I was thinking some may prioritise decreasing excruciating pain much more than decreasing disabling pain. Some people may even go further, and prioritise decreasing the most intense forms of excruciating pain, potentially to an extent cage-free reforms would have very small benefits due to not decreasing the maximum pain intensity. For example, one may only care about the worst 0.1 s of a chicken’s life (arguably during stunning or slaughter), and this be almost exactly as bad for hens in conventional cages and cage-free aviaries.
Thanks for clarifying, Wladimir. I will also try to clear up my point. In the same way you seem to prioritise decreasing disabling and excruciating pain much more than decreasing annoying and hurtful pain (in particular, much more than justified by pain intensities), I was thinking some may prioritise decreasing excruciating pain much more than decreasing disabling pain. Some people may even go further, and prioritise decreasing the most intense forms of excruciating pain, potentially to an extent cage-free reforms would have very small benefits due to not decreasing the maximum pain intensity. For example, one may only care about the worst 0.1 s of a chicken’s life (arguably during stunning or slaughter), and this be almost exactly as bad for hens in conventional cages and cage-free aviaries.