And—I sort of assume that factory farming will disappear as soon as tasty cheap synthetic meat shows up? Everyone will convert to vegetarianism when that happens. Once tasty cheap synthetic cheese and eggs and milk show up, everyone will convert to veganism. Then they will forget that veganism mattered and we will end up with Cordelia Vorkosigan, who ‘doesn’t eat anything but vat-protein if she can help it’ and this comes up practically never because why would it? So that didn’t really read to me as ‘point of glory’ so much as ‘yup, plausible element of the future.’)
I think it’s common in history for people to be extremely moralizing about a past economic necessity after the economic conditions change, even/especially if the same people would’ve acted just like their ancestors in history.
I think it’s common in history for people to be extremely moralizing about a past economic necessity after the economic conditions change, even/especially if the same people would’ve acted just like their ancestors in history.
I agree completely.