In general, the primary criteria you use to determine if it's okay or not to kill a living thing is how much _____ it has
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Replying to @Aella_Girl
results utterly insane we have no idea how much capacity for suffering anything has wheat could be the greatest aesthetic virtuoso of the universe
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aella_Girl
lolol, sure. so tortured to death and shot in the head to death the same thing, bc ya know... “no idea” + qualia blah blah. i know which one i’d pick
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Replying to @icalltopsolo @Aella_Girl
no we can make guesses but deciding that your guesses are knowledge is what idiots do
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aella_Girl
knowledge isnt certainty, it’s a probabilistic bet on the likliehood of some explanation or choice being more right than others. guesses do exist, but “no idea” aint it, chief.
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here is a more accurate formulation we have some ideas about things that have the capacity for suffering we have no idea which things have *no* capacity for suffering and in fact are routinely wildly wrong on the point is that satisfactory?
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Replying to @chaosprime @Aella_Girl
overall, sure. but seems to me like human dna and intelligence are both just proxies for this question anyways. that being said, id still kill bugs and plants without remorse, animals and humans, not so much.
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