Nisan comments on [link] SMBC on utilitarianism and vegatarianism. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nisan 17 October 2011 02:59:53AM 5 points [-]

A number of people are motivated to be vegan or vegetarian by the conditions under which factory-farm animals live. For example, Julia Galef in this podcast.

Comment author: Hyena 22 October 2011 06:14:55AM 0 points [-]

Are you talking about objections or disgust? I can, through emotional manipulation, make you "object" to many things, but these don't occupy the same space as considered argument.