Jay Bodhi

working towards abolishing suffering

wild animal welfare enthusiast

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Nature: where babies are forced to fight to the death, every second of every day, in perpetuity.

Only we can change this.

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Wikipedia: Moral circle expansion
https://t.co/Nl77WhU0Wc

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Humanity torments trillions of sentient beings every year.

Nature torments quadrillions.

Moral progress happens when we refuse to accept 'that's just how things are' and start asking 'does it have to be that way?'

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@Haoshoku 10mg*
(I hope)

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Seen in r/StopSpeciesism

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@septimius_sev_ @Msuddgu He has since realized that it isn’t something he can legally do. It would be embarrassing for him to proceed, only for Netanyahu to walk free while he potentially ends up the one in legal trouble.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Sentiocentrism, aka sentientism:
Sentience is the basis for moral consideration.

@Sentientism:
Evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings—with broader implications than sentiocentrism alone.

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For most animals in nature, there are 2 possible fates:
You either starve to death from a lack of food, or you become the food for someone else.
It's a callous cycle of pain and misery guided only by the blind force of nature. We should not worship or romanticize such brutality.

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Quote of the week (#3)
Magnus Vinding @MagnusVinding

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The extremely inconvenient truth of wild animal suffering (2016)
A great introduction to the problem
https://t.co/WW7YkrmXD5

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@Benthamsbulldog @Mirs_____ Some suggest humane insecticides as a worthwhile project.

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Magnus Vinding argues that animal advocates should focus on antispeciesism rather than veganism, using wild-animal suffering as an example as to why.
https://t.co/SXNIYdNqk3

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@AndyMasley Mine was vitamin D.

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We treat nature like it’s a sanctuary, but it’s actually a torture chamber.
Conservation is just preserving a system of suffering and slaughter for quadrillions of animals.
We shouldn’t be trying to expand/conserve the wild; we should be trying to save the beings trapped inside.

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Biomass alone is a poor proxy for number of individuals.

Consider this:
Cyclothone microdon, the most abundant fish, weighs just 0.5 grams.
Deer, some of the most abundant mammals by biomass, range from 23,600 times (Pudu) to over 1.4 million times heavier (Moose) per animal!

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Quote of the week (#2)
Karl Popper

[Flowers ☾ @flowersslop]

you can say completely random bullshit and chatgpt will tell you you're broadly right while claude will just tell you it means nothing

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All sentient beings matter.

[Jay Bodhi @JaiBodhi]

We treat nature like it’s a sanctuary, but it’s actually a torture chamber.
Conservation is just preserving a system of suffering and slaughter for quadrillions of animals.
We shouldn’t be trying to expand/conserve the wild; we should be trying to save the beings trapped inside.