Lukas_Gloor comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 24 July 2013 01:08:45PM 2 points [-]

Those very animals will also die if people don't switch to vegetarianism, and then new animals will be bred and they will die too.

Comment author: [deleted] 24 July 2013 01:27:19PM -2 points [-]

Yes, but it's bad. You're trying to stop animal death and suffering that is a product of our carnivorous habits by getting people to stop eating meat. But animals will also die and suffer as a result of us ceasing our carnivorous habits. What is your plan for preventing that?

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 24 July 2013 01:59:03PM 1 point [-]

Fewer animals means fewer deaths and suffering. I don't need to solve every single problem in the universe if I want to do something good. Hopefully though, a future AI will be able to reengineer whole ecosystems so the sentient beings in them won't have the biological capacity for suffering anymore.