Hey from BC
Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:57 pm
Hi All. Nice to meet you. I'm Dave from British Columbia, Canada.
And I'm hopeful that this may be a community where I can engage in thoughtful, ad hominem-free discussion of the many fascinating and pragmatic issues surrounding the ethics of eating and not eating animals.
I'm particularly interested in:
- Exploring non-puritan, effective altruistic approaches to reducing animal suffering
- The psychology of social change
- The theory of Carnism and it's implications to activism
- The intersection of environmentalism and animal ethics
- The philosophy of suffering (Singer, Schopenhauer, Buddha, etc.)
- The efficacy and appropriateness of technology solving problems where social change can't for animals, the environment, etc. ("clean meat," nuclear energy, etc.)
- Exploring what blind spots we have
- Rooting out and countering bad pro-Vegan arguments that ultimately serve to undermine the movement as they give ammunition to the opposition
- Veganism and health: the pros and cons, with an eye to exploring the positives "and" puncturing the lies of the supposed miracle of the vegan diet.
- In our secular age, does Veganism fill a "meaning void" in peoples' lives and what are the implications of this? Is this a good thing?
- Also interested in the ethics and practicality of ending wild animal suffering.
- Interested in the suffering of the "human" animal, particularly from the stance of antinatalists such as David Benatar.
- Etc.
And I'm hopeful that this may be a community where I can engage in thoughtful, ad hominem-free discussion of the many fascinating and pragmatic issues surrounding the ethics of eating and not eating animals.
I'm particularly interested in:
- Exploring non-puritan, effective altruistic approaches to reducing animal suffering
- The psychology of social change
- The theory of Carnism and it's implications to activism
- The intersection of environmentalism and animal ethics
- The philosophy of suffering (Singer, Schopenhauer, Buddha, etc.)
- The efficacy and appropriateness of technology solving problems where social change can't for animals, the environment, etc. ("clean meat," nuclear energy, etc.)
- Exploring what blind spots we have
- Rooting out and countering bad pro-Vegan arguments that ultimately serve to undermine the movement as they give ammunition to the opposition
- Veganism and health: the pros and cons, with an eye to exploring the positives "and" puncturing the lies of the supposed miracle of the vegan diet.
- In our secular age, does Veganism fill a "meaning void" in peoples' lives and what are the implications of this? Is this a good thing?
- Also interested in the ethics and practicality of ending wild animal suffering.
- Interested in the suffering of the "human" animal, particularly from the stance of antinatalists such as David Benatar.
- Etc.