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

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Comment author: MichaelBishop 07 May 2009 05:09:24PM *  0 points [-]

I appreciate that you are making some adjustment to new evidence and therefore vote you up.

I acknowledge that the my moral calculations are far from the only thing driving my dietary decisions, the social motivations are interesting, and cut both ways. The fact that I have been exposed to, and learned how to cook, a delicious variety of vegetarian food certainly lessens the sacrifice I make. This is worthy of more discussion, though I may have to excuse myself from it at this point.

That said, I do believe I am, compared to the vast majority of people - even, I imagine, people on LW: 1. making better moral calculations regarding my dietary choices, 2. acting more in accordance with my moral calculations than other people.

Of course, most people probably believe those things about themselves.