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Ethical vegan, interested in moral metaphysics & suffering abolition. Developing a philosophy of experience.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

How could a being intentionally instantiate worlds containing suffering & agony without that suffering & agony becoming instrumentally justified?

[sapio🌱 @sapiogenic]

I love this child and the billions of others in their shoes.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

@VeganMeatNow @TheSaffronFlame @5Pillarsuk It is the land of dharmics and converted abrahamics belong there due to their ancestry. Duh.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

Why is there a universe where things can go better or worse for *someone*?

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

What does it mean that the universe contains subjects and not merely objects?

[NothingIsArt2 @NothingIsArt2]

This is the result of a slaveowner mindset.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

@classicaldoom This is gut punching. I need to read this every day.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

@classicaldoom Wow, yes. I just tweeted something eerily close in sentiment but making a case for technological intervention.

[Vegan Tanya Bhatia 🌱 @vegantanya]

'meat' is such a horrible speciesist word because it completely steals an animal's individuality and reduces them to a commodity.. an entire magnificent life boiled down to nothing but a piece of flesh..

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

Put more succinctly: every locus of experience is the centre of a world, yet finite minds are structurally incapable of apprehending all those centres simultaneously, creating a gap between moral reality and moral perception.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

Yet, every one of them stands at the centre of their own world, and existing matters for them. Imagine our minds were capable of representing that reality in full resolution, what would be the implications? (3/3)

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

A tragedy of the finite mind: a clear case for the moral-technological advancement of the human species is the fact that our brains didn’t develop to emotionally represent thousands or millions of persons/centres of experience at once. (1/3)

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

This explains the identifiable victim effect—why we react so strongly to Neil the seal (where is he today? Is he okay? Don’t disturb him, escort him to sea at a distance, etc) but 500,000 seals becomes a faceless biomass, mere conservation data, brute numbers. (2/3)

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

Many humans get that “dropping out of self” feeling through prayer, meditation, nature, art, etc.

Encountering the sweetness of animals does this for me like no other. The self-referential loop quietens and attention becomes absorbed in something profoundly valuable—a someone.

[B 🐇 @gnosia101]

Sentience has intrinsic moral salience.

[Benevolence @classicaldoom]

@Proushthil @herbivoryze Predation abolitionism is a moral stance first.
You don't have to endorse any particular means of intervention.
You can just recognize the moral issue and say we should work towards a solution, and then let the scientists, ethicists etc. figure out the best options.