Animal suffering

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by Luce

I am unsure how this works.

That's why I brought it up,

"We had to destroy the species to prevent their suffering."

It's a paradox; our current way is, "We had to ignore their unthinkable level of suffering in order to save them." That is almost, but not exactly, equally ridiculous.

[glatt]

Animals will fight to stay alive, even if they are suffering. They would rather suffer than die. That's enough for me to not be too worried about their suffering in the wild.

Picture a deer trying to climb out of a lake after breaking through the ice. You know it's gonna try the best it can.

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

That's why I brought it up,



It's a paradox; our current way is, "We had to ignore their unthinkable level of suffering in order to save them." That is almost, but not exactly, equally ridiculous.

It's been working for something like 9000 years.