Wild animal welfare is an important and neglected #EffectiveAltruism issue.https://www.vox.com/2015/12/14/9873012/wild-animals-suffering …
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Philosophically, do "natural rights" apply to animals? If not, natural rights are relative. Do we wish to argue that? If natural rights do apply to all sentient creatures, what is the justification for depriving animals of those rights?
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What is sentience? Cats will hunt for fun, and if birds and mice are sentient, what do we do about the cat problem? Or any predators?
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This is why Jim Kirk had such a hard time with the Prime Directive.
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I thank Janeway for defying the Prime Temporal Directive.
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It is a mistake to morally value individual animals. Ecological function is an infinitely greater priority than animal comfort.
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That’s stupid. The only thing real is suffering and that matters. Nature sucks
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I don't say this out of romanticism, I say it out of practicality. Though hedonism isn't terribly attractive to me even for humans.
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Why aren’t we more concerned with controlling human population? Animals are not the ones destroying the environment.
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That’s a human created problem. Not that cows fart, but that human intervention has increased the cow population so much that their farts now affect our environment.
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Are you one of those people who cry about the population of everything but also cry every time something gets killed?pic.twitter.com/3GmlcCVGlv
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No, but your lazy generalisations reveal much about you.
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While I think it's an interesting article, it doesn't really compare WAS to current livestock and zoo suffering. That would've been a lot more interesting. It just says wild animals live worse lives IF captive animals are cared for well.
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"Confuse ecology w/ welfare." Archie Bunker always says it better than we ever could: "Oh! Mink is not endangered. That's good news for the mink hanging around your neck. It's not endangered--just murdered."
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But in nature, apex predators DO control populations. Without this, the ecosystem destabilizes and prey lose defensive adaptability.
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I agree about this when it comes to pets. However domesticated animals far exceed the wild animals and that domestication is primarily for food . Are they treated well? Is that a life they are happy in?
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So should we fight for better treatment of livestock? Or essentially ensure their extinction by setting them free? The author cites the claim that pigs owe their existence to the demand for bacon.
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Would anyone want to exist for the explicit purpose of being slaughtered ?
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Do Not humanize; The Pigs do Not Know Why they Are there
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So if one doesn’t know the purpose of their existence it is fine to kill them for taste. Dehumanising makes it easier to eat bacon?
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That’s why you do it

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Maybe; Important is, that there is No cruel Treatment of animals
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