Iâm still kind of unconvinced.
If we were talking only about human populations, sure then Iâd agree, most efforts seem intended to provoke good things.
But when you look at other species ? I think if you look at the things we do to factory farmed animals or wild animals or animals we just harm because of pollutions or climate change or deep see mining when it starts, weâd label all of that to be bad if it were done to humans.
Iâm more interested in actual track record rather than intentions. Our intentions donât match up super well with âoverall good in the world increasingâ.
One important reason we might do more bad than good in the future is because animals are far more numerous than humans, and most likely dominate from a moral standpoint (besides maybe artificial sentence). Most importantly, our goals are often opposed to theirs : finding more energy, using fossil fuels, using chemicals for making goods, eating meat, making silk, clearing a forest for agriculture and cities⌠So as we aggregate even more energy, itâs unlikely that our actions are going to be beneficial to animalâs goals given our own objectives.
Iâm still kind of unconvinced. If we were talking only about human populations, sure then Iâd agree, most efforts seem intended to provoke good things. But when you look at other species ? I think if you look at the things we do to factory farmed animals or wild animals or animals we just harm because of pollutions or climate change or deep see mining when it starts, weâd label all of that to be bad if it were done to humans.
Iâm more interested in actual track record rather than intentions. Our intentions donât match up super well with âoverall good in the world increasingâ.
One important reason we might do more bad than good in the future is because animals are far more numerous than humans, and most likely dominate from a moral standpoint (besides maybe artificial sentence). Most importantly, our goals are often opposed to theirs : finding more energy, using fossil fuels, using chemicals for making goods, eating meat, making silk, clearing a forest for agriculture and cities⌠So as we aggregate even more energy, itâs unlikely that our actions are going to be beneficial to animalâs goals given our own objectives.