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Caspian comments on Vegetarianism - Less Wrong Discussion

29 Post author: Raemon 24 December 2010 04:57AM

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Comment author: Caspian 27 December 2010 04:24:30PM 0 points [-]

"Can it suffer" is relevant when the decision is about its suffering. "How much is its potential future life valued" (by humans, and by itself if it has a concept of the future) is more relevant to killing in particular. Arguably you could weigh the suffering involved in an immanent death more than the suffering in a much later death.