Almost every conscious creature ever born died painfully in its first few days or weeks of life| benthams.substack.com
Pain in creatures of significantly debated consciousness: much more than you wanted to know| benthams.substack.com
The rebugnant conclusion and its consequences| benthams.substack.com
This is the eighth post in the Moral Weight Project Sequence, which provides an overview of the research Rethink Priorities conducted between May 2021 and October 2022 on making resource allocation…| Rethink Priorities
By Brian Tomasik| reducing-suffering.org
The number of wild animals vastly exceeds that of animals on factory farms. Therefore, animal advocates should consider focusing their efforts to raise concern about the suffering that occurs in nature. In theory, engineering more humane ecological systems might be valuable. In practice, however, it seems more effective to promote the meme of caring about wild animals to other activists, academics and other sympathetic groups.| Center on Long-Term Risk
By Brian Tomasik| reducing-suffering.org