a plurality of people support ethics such that the organism with the most capacity for suffering is the most valuable one which we all must exert ourselves to preserve which is actually the thrust of woke culture so i guess it checks out that it's popularhttps://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1200985844632342528 …
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Replying to @chaosprime
Without restricting yourself to the choices in that poll, what would your answer be?
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Replying to @mattdiamond
whether the expected consequences of killing it are better than the expected consequences of not killing it, rating costs and benefits to yourself at nominal and costs and benefits to others at a discretionary factor that is above zero if you don't want to be fucking evil
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Replying to @chaosprime
makes sense, though tbh it feels like you've quarantined the messiness of the question within the discretionary factor
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Replying to @mattdiamond @chaosprime
like the question just arises again within that context: "In general, the primary criteria you use to determine the discretionary factor w/r/t killing a living thing is:"
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primary in that is how willing i am to live with having killed this creature that may have meaningfully wanted to live
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for the discretionary factor applied to the thing to be killed, that is. bystanders probably get a default value, which only becomes interesting if the costs to them are relatively high, such as if it's an animal they own
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