To me this seems like essentially a “cheap shot”—you could write basically this story in support of very many positions. Imagine a story that’s like “wow, this guy was a utilitarian, even back then people knew utilitarianism could lead to unacceptable conclusions, we’re getting rid of his statue” or whatever. In fact, you could probably write a story like this against certain ideas in EA animal thought.
Yeah, IIRC both G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis wrote about how anyone can just say “the future will agree with me,” as a way of getting support for your ideas, but nobody really knows about the future and probably everyone is wrong because the future will be more complicated than anyone thinks, and so arguments from the future are bad logic and invalid. (I think that Lewis’s is a bit of the Screwtape Letters and that Chesterton’s essay is in “What’s Wrong With The World.”) So I endorse this complaint.
But I didn’t include that in my description because I do in fact think veganism will take over the world once the technology gets far enough, so that wasn’t my true objection to the story.
To me this seems like essentially a “cheap shot”—you could write basically this story in support of very many positions. Imagine a story that’s like “wow, this guy was a utilitarian, even back then people knew utilitarianism could lead to unacceptable conclusions, we’re getting rid of his statue” or whatever. In fact, you could probably write a story like this against certain ideas in EA animal thought.
Yeah, IIRC both G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis wrote about how anyone can just say “the future will agree with me,” as a way of getting support for your ideas, but nobody really knows about the future and probably everyone is wrong because the future will be more complicated than anyone thinks, and so arguments from the future are bad logic and invalid. (I think that Lewis’s is a bit of the Screwtape Letters and that Chesterton’s essay is in “What’s Wrong With The World.”) So I endorse this complaint.
But I didn’t include that in my description because I do in fact think veganism will take over the world once the technology gets far enough, so that wasn’t my true objection to the story.