It’s always possible to describe things in a very unflattering way, where you talk about some inputs as opposed to your goal or just describe it in a pessimistic light (eg, cheap/stingy vs. frugal). The OP describes “protests, or boycotts, or negotiations” as not something he wants to fund, but I think if you talked about funding pyrethroid production, that would also not be something he wants to fund, though that’s another way of describing insecticide-treated bednets. You could also go even worse and talk about “mass genocide of insects” or something.
To put it another way, I think global health people (who I have deep respect for) would be pretty upset and rightly call out someone writing a post where someone said they didn’t donate to global health charities since they don’t want to fund the chemical manufacturing industry, which is what we are actually purchasing.
I think I did not do a good job of framing this post. My goal was not to criticise the people working in animal welfare organisations, quite the contrary! I think they are doing very necessary work, and I am really grateful to them, especially given how weird this looks to most people. In other words, I am not claiming that these feelings are right, only that they exist.
The goal of the post was instead to reflect on something I feel (and presumably others feel too), which may be dragging donations to those organisations. In my case, this applies to politics too.
Understood. I was responding to what I assumed OP was getting at, regardless of how poorly framed, and your specific naming of chemicals threw me off. Thanks for clarifying.
Can you explain how they’re the same?
It’s always possible to describe things in a very unflattering way, where you talk about some inputs as opposed to your goal or just describe it in a pessimistic light (eg, cheap/stingy vs. frugal). The OP describes “protests, or boycotts, or negotiations” as not something he wants to fund, but I think if you talked about funding pyrethroid production, that would also not be something he wants to fund, though that’s another way of describing insecticide-treated bednets. You could also go even worse and talk about “mass genocide of insects” or something.
To put it another way, I think global health people (who I have deep respect for) would be pretty upset and rightly call out someone writing a post where someone said they didn’t donate to global health charities since they don’t want to fund the chemical manufacturing industry, which is what we are actually purchasing.
I think I did not do a good job of framing this post. My goal was not to criticise the people working in animal welfare organisations, quite the contrary! I think they are doing very necessary work, and I am really grateful to them, especially given how weird this looks to most people. In other words, I am not claiming that these feelings are right, only that they exist.
The goal of the post was instead to reflect on something I feel (and presumably others feel too), which may be dragging donations to those organisations. In my case, this applies to politics too.
I think that’s fair. I appreciate that you engage with this problem that I think most people ignore.
Understood. I was responding to what I assumed OP was getting at, regardless of how poorly framed, and your specific naming of chemicals threw me off. Thanks for clarifying.