I made a video discussing activism within the vegan community.
Animal rights is easily the most important issue to me, and of course it's something many of us here consider a lot. I received some criticism for my video about effective altruism, as I was told I was being a bit too in your face and upfront, but for this video I decided to tone it down (still a little bit snarky).
Near the end I talk about how, although many vegans have good intentions, they can be potentially counterproductive when they advocate for very harmful ideas such as misanthropy and anti-natalism, or when they're just overemotional instead of keeping their cool. I suppose a discussion topic for the video, what can the animal rights movement do to improve their reach?
Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
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