You seem to be assuming that the primary harm of malaria deaths and (conditioned on “fetuses counted as people”) of abortion is the suffering that children and fetuses experience when dying of malaria and abortion, respectively. That’s an unusual assumption; I think most people would identify the primary harm as the loss of ability to live the rest of the child or fetus’ life.
So I think you’re missing a step of either (1) explaining why your implied assumption above is correct, or (2) comparing human loss-of-life to chicken suffering rather than suffering to suffering as your infographic does. (In the world where factory farming ended, these chickens would likely not exist in the first place, so I wouldn’t include a loss-of-enjoyable-life factor on the chicken side of the equation).
That’s a very good point! Thank you for your criticism!
I chose to compare fetus suffering to chicken suffering directly because I’m very uncertain about how much an extra life lived compares to prevention of suffering in existing lives; I had a hunch that any value I assigned to additional lives lived would be pretty arbitrary, so I instead focused on the (comparatively) easy part of suffering to suffering.
I’ll make sure to add a disclaimer that this is a rough fermi estimate that makes massive simplifying assumptions.
You seem to be assuming that the primary harm of malaria deaths and (conditioned on “fetuses counted as people”) of abortion is the suffering that children and fetuses experience when dying of malaria and abortion, respectively. That’s an unusual assumption; I think most people would identify the primary harm as the loss of ability to live the rest of the child or fetus’ life.
So I think you’re missing a step of either (1) explaining why your implied assumption above is correct, or (2) comparing human loss-of-life to chicken suffering rather than suffering to suffering as your infographic does. (In the world where factory farming ended, these chickens would likely not exist in the first place, so I wouldn’t include a loss-of-enjoyable-life factor on the chicken side of the equation).
That’s a very good point! Thank you for your criticism!
I chose to compare fetus suffering to chicken suffering directly because I’m very uncertain about how much an extra life lived compares to prevention of suffering in existing lives; I had a hunch that any value I assigned to additional lives lived would be pretty arbitrary, so I instead focused on the (comparatively) easy part of suffering to suffering.
I’ll make sure to add a disclaimer that this is a rough fermi estimate that makes massive simplifying assumptions.