"All sentient species capable of compassion should arrive at the conclusion that suffering should be avoided, and as such should unavoidably derive that they should wipe out, regrettably, their own biosphere (and perhaps others too)." http://blog.devicerandom.org/2015/09/28/is-a-biosphere-worth-living/ …
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"This is not a fringe point of view: it is the basis of veganism" did elicit a hearty lol, I'll give 'em that
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"unless the existence of ecosystems has a moral value superior to the suffering of billions of beings, this is entirely morally irrelevant" i mean how is this not an instant reductio ab absurdum of the entire set of premises
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In general I just can't engage seriously with the idea that the potential to suffer is so untenable that retreating into nonexistence is in any way a reasonable response instead of a supine yielding to despair.
End of conversation
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