• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    What if it requires 1/1000th the number of animals … but each one suffers a hundred times more?

    Would it be worth it?

        • 0xD@infosec.pub
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          7 months ago

          Unfortunately, I don’t really understand your response.

          You talked about one hundred times the suffering. What does that mean? To me, the way animals are held in mass production is completely unethical and there is no way to make it worse… So how do you make the animals suffer even more?

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      8 months ago

      From a utilitarian perspective, you’re still reducing overall suffering by an order of magnitude, so your scenario is still a greater good.