The conclusion would be that we’d better stop dumping money on the global poor to make sure we have as many meat-eaters as possible to support an unregulated factory farming industry, and direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility rather than just rtitualistically making offerings to the past.
“direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility”
Vague and evasive. Say what you mean. If you want to keep poor people poor until some new technology comes out, you should say that. If you don’t think further development will ever be justified, you should say that (so that your contention can be discarded as absurd and impractical)
I mean spending money and energy on animal welfare or some other positive cause rather than on alleviating poverty.
Doesn’t that sound more like “direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility” than does the “absurd and impractical” contention that “further development will [not] ever be justified”?
The conclusion would be that we’d better stop dumping money on the global poor to make sure we have as many meat-eaters as possible to support an unregulated factory farming industry, and direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility rather than just rtitualistically making offerings to the past.
“direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility”
Vague and evasive. Say what you mean. If you want to keep poor people poor until some new technology comes out, you should say that. If you don’t think further development will ever be justified, you should say that (so that your contention can be discarded as absurd and impractical)
I mean spending money and energy on animal welfare or some other positive cause rather than on alleviating poverty.
Doesn’t that sound more like “direct altruistic focus strategically so as to be of positive utility” than does the “absurd and impractical” contention that “further development will [not] ever be justified”?