Cosmos comments on Essay-Question Poll: Dietary Choices - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cosmos 03 May 2009 08:43:07PM 3 points [-]

I'm another paleo dieter. It seems like that diet is overrepresented among rationalists and individualists from my experience, but that is just personal empiricism.

I take a positive view towards the morality of meat consumption. We are doing it because it is practical and delicious - we simply have a weaker preference for not doing unnecessary harm to animals. Once vat-grown meat becomes widely available, I predict that our cultural sentiments surrounding meat consumption will rapidly change such that only vat-grown meat will be acceptable to eat.

Comment author: Davorak 23 July 2011 08:17:11AM 0 points [-]

By:

our cultural sentiments surrounding meat consumption

Do you mean the rationalist community or the human community at large?

Comment author: Cosmos 23 July 2011 06:09:59PM 0 points [-]

I meant humanity at large, and I expect the rationalist community to follow suit.