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

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Comment author: Raemon 17 October 2011 03:55:51AM 2 points [-]

Even as a vegetarian, if I was forced to kill some arbitrarily large number of cows or a single human, I'd probably find a way to rationalize the cows as non-people pretty quickly. Mostly, I'd get sick of having to do the manual labor of killing them all by hand, if that's the route we're going.