This is completely unrelated to your main point, but for the record eating meat isn't mutually exclusive with regard to the feelings of animals. I personally don't feel that my diet has enough of an impact on food production to warrant the inconvenience and discomfort that would come with a vegan lifestyle.
I personally don't feel that my diet has enough of an impact on food production to warrant the inconvenience and discomfort that would come with a vegan lifestyle.
On average, one more person buying an easily-produced resource results in the production of an estra personsworth of that resource. The large numbers of other people mainly just make it harder to feel, since the human brain sucks at large numbers.
Just a thought I had the other day; what do you think that the political ideas of conservatism have to do with cognitive bias? I mean, how much are people willing to change naturally, without arguing any points?
I know very little about all of these things, so forgive me if this is a silly thought.