Alex Schwalb
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Thanks for the great post, it was a very enjoyable read.
I'm curious if there are any justification to using qualities such as intelligence, creativity and sociability to determine moral status? They seem pretty arbitrary to me. We might as well consider fluffyness, body weight and visual resolution.
I would think if there is at all something like hierarchical moral status, it would be determined by instrumental qualities such as resource consumption (negative) and altruism (positive)
I'm donating to the Good Food Institute for 2 reasons:
1: Moving the world more towards alt protein has a positive impact in many different areas including animal welfare, food security, pandemic prevention and climate change
2: I live in Switzerland and effective-spenden makes it bureaucratically easy and tax deductible to donate to them