restricted entrance to e.g. whites or men
The explanation: you seem to be assuming that consuming meat is on the order of wrongness of racism or sexism. That assumption is not shared here on LessWrong to a large degree; if you wish to explore it and determine why it isn't, and whether it should be, feel free. But simply assuming it is wrong, and gets downvoted as such. One should not assume the truth or falsity positions they wish to discuss, investigate, or instigate investigative discussion about.
In this way, assuming that anthropocentric bias should be corrected for with the cessation of meat consumption, and furthermore that the community as a whole has only anthropocentric bias to justify their meat-eating, and furthermore that this constitutes a failure to refine human rationality, is jumping the gun by leaps and bounds.
(I very nearly posted "What ought one to think of such a commenter that speaks bias yet labors under such misguided assumptions themselves?").
The explanation: you seem to be assuming that consuming meat is on the order of wrongness of racism or sexism.
I'm assuming no such thing; I'm simply providing a counterexample to Eliezer's claim that any "comment of the general form 'Oh, how can you claim to be 'less wrong' and yet do X, which is wrong?' [...] will automatically get downvoted to oblivion."
There's a Less Wrong meetup at my house in Berkeley this Saturday, the 25th of December, at 6PM. Celebrate the winter season, the Solstice, and the birth of Sir Isaac Newton among friendly aspiring rationalists, including Eliezer and other SIAI staff and volunteers.
I will cook for everyone in the style I call "paleolithic gourmet" which is cooked meat and raw produce.
I'd like to satisfy everyone's preferences as reasonably as I possibly can without getting vastly more food than will be eaten.
Default menu:
Steak
Lamb Burgers
Bacon
Salad of Berkeley Bowl produce and parmesan
Grilled Portabello and chanterelle mushrooms
Cheese selection
Pita + hummus
Cookies
Feel free to bring a potluck dessert or if you like, an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage.
The food is free, but if you can afford to, in the spirit of Newtonmas, I suggest a $10 or $15 or $500 donation to SIAI (which will be matched). Please don't not come because you prefer not to pay; no one will be excluded from food or shunned for not paying. I really mean that. Consider the donation not an admission fee and more of a gentle nudge and reminder that optimal philanthropy starts around $10 and that you should positively associate giving money with the fuzzies of eating delicious food.
Please post here if you plan on attending and RSVP on Facebook. You can also post here or PM me with your thoughts on the menu and tell me what you want to eat the most of. I wasn't planning on cooking fish or chicken but can do so if people let me know they want fish or chicken or something else (like a carbohydrate).
My address is 1622 Martin Luther King Jr Way Apt A, Berkeley CA. It's the ground floor apartment around the side, not the upstairs one.