‘Falling asleep’.

I have seen people pass out while that album was playing.

Left: wine glass with broken off foot.

Right: chess piece reveal party.

I will repeat myself: Perfect is the enemy of good. In my opinion, you’re spending your finite attention arguing with the wrong person.

Yes, thank you for clarifying this.

Not sure why anyone would assume monetary/commercial benefit here.

Interesting read.

I think parts of Indo-European languages (nouns, verbs) can be represented by icons the same way a logographic language can be spelled out phonetically. The questions are: (1) how do you represent other kins of words, and (2) what icons to use 😵‍💫🤷🏾‍♂

My point is: ethics should not be confused with a single dimension of ethics. Whether something I’d ethical, depends on your beliefs.

Simultaneously, if animal welfare is all we optimize for, vegetarianism is a step forward. And indeed, so is pollotarianism when optimizing for just environmental impact. Perfect is the enemy of good.

The bottom line is: 1 cow birth per year (or let’s call it cow deaths, because that’s what is most relevant here) yields around 10.000L of milk. Out of which around 1000kg of cheese can be produced, plus of course the meat of that calf.

Does that make it ethical? I don’t think so. But I would say around 1.5-2x less unethical compared to eating meat, which is significant.

If ethical = animal welfare, perhaps.

But when factoring in e.g. water consumption and CO2e per unit of food consumed, I would argue the average vegetarian diet to be significantly more ethical compared with the average omnivorous diet.

Obviously the type of animals involved, the way they are treated and killed, and religious views add more complexity to this case.

edit: the essence of my point is that this isn’t a black and white matter.