Now that the idea has occurred to me, it seems like it would be deeply ethically problematic for me to *not* run a snake rescue and adoption agency out of this church
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I think dogs eating meat is ethically different. It's more similar to humans eating meat than, say, bears eating humans. (I think the Harris argument against feeding rodents to snakes is less "rodents are intelligent," but more specifically, "rodents > snakes wrt intelligence"
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are you asking for a citation that rodents such as rats are more intelligent than snakes? I thought the intelligence of rats was pretty well-documented. (Perhaps it's a mistake for me to assume that therefore all rodents most possess similar levels of intelligence)
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I don't actually think intelligence is the crucial question, for the same reason that I don't think human beings' moral worth is largely contingent on IQ. I found this report interesting: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/2017-report-consciousness-and-moral-patienthood#Probabilities …
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