wedrifid comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 08 September 2009 06:27:08PM 11 points [-]

Specifically, most people assert that animals are sentient; yet most people are not vegetarians, even though eating meat is no longer necessary for survival. There is an inconsistency between these positions.

No there isn't. It implies that they violate another norm that you value but it is not inconsistent.