Interesting that so many pro-vegan arguments (eg in https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9gb7tt/extrapolating_the_eat_beef_not_chicken_argument/e63flw0/ …) are intrinsically irrationalist, particularly juxtaposed against the usual rationalism.
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at its most basic it’s about the trade-off between existence (above some threshold) and well-being
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which seems fair to me, at least to think about
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Most obvious problem IMO: it assumes magic free resources for extra people, w/ happiness reduction arbitrarily attached. Real limit is *not* "lives minimally worth living" but "subsistence lives", which is measured in resources not happiness & doesn't dictate lack of the latter.
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