Do you have a sense as to why people haven’t quite bridged the inferential gap between wherever they are and your work, despite your (patient, repeated, very thorough) attempts to explain?
With respect to my work on soil animals? I guess people who have read the posts, and like quantitative analyses understand my arguments. However, many of those still disagree on empirical grounds. For example, if they believe the expected total welfare of soil animals is negligible compared with that of farmed animals, in contrast to my estimates. In addition, many disagree for fundamental moral reasons. For instance, if they value averting more intense pain much more strongly than what is justified by its intensity, in contrast to valuing averting pain proportionally to its duration, intensity, and probability as implied by expectationaltotalhedonisticutilitarianism (which I strongly endorse).
Do you have a sense as to why people haven’t quite bridged the inferential gap between wherever they are and your work, despite your (patient, repeated, very thorough) attempts to explain?
With respect to my work on soil animals? I guess people who have read the posts, and like quantitative analyses understand my arguments. However, many of those still disagree on empirical grounds. For example, if they believe the expected total welfare of soil animals is negligible compared with that of farmed animals, in contrast to my estimates. In addition, many disagree for fundamental moral reasons. For instance, if they value averting more intense pain much more strongly than what is justified by its intensity, in contrast to valuing averting pain proportionally to its duration, intensity, and probability as implied by expectationaltotal hedonistic utilitarianism (which I strongly endorse).