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Default Squaring the Irrational Search for Micrograms with "vegan" do-nothingism

On Apr 7, 6:03*pm, George Plimpton > wrote:
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> >>> What do you suppose would motivate the search if they didn't believe
> >>> (falsely) that it was the best way of trying to reduce harm to
> >>> animals? How would you make sense of what they are doing if they
> >>> didn't have that belief?

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> >> They believe that by being vegan they achieve a certain moral standing and
> >> by consuming any animal parts at all they are tainted and that moral
> >> standing is threatened. They perceive it as the idea being "repulsive" or
> >> something to that effect.

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> > How would they be able to sustain the belief that they thereby obtain
> > a certain moral standing if they didn't believe that that was the best
> > way to reduce harm to animals?

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> Your question is absurd. *Their belief about the effect and sufficiency
> of "veganism" is false, and therefore so is their belief about their
> moral standing.


But they do have the belief, and therefore they are motivated to do
something about animal suffering, they're just not going about it in
the best way.