I would guess that you're not a utilitarian and a lot of LWers are. The standard utilitarian position is that all that matters is the interests of beings, and beings' utility is weighed equally regardless of what those beings are. One "unit" of suffering (or utility) generated by an animal is equal to the same unit generated by a human.
I would guess that you're not a utilitarian and a lot of LWers are.
If "a lot" means "a minority".
r/Fitness does a weekly "Moronic Monday", a judgment-free thread where people can ask questions that they would ordinarily feel embarrassed for not knowing the answer to. I thought this seemed like a useful thing to have here - after all, the concepts discussed on LessWrong are probably at least a little harder to grasp than those of weightlifting. Plus, I have a few stupid questions of my own, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that other people might as well.