For the animals, I really only care that they're not tortured (I can't imagine why someone would care whether a chicken does or does not live out their natural lifespan), and accordingly, 25% of my Giving What We Can Pledge goes to animal welfare charities (or at least it will once I set that up again, I need to get my finances a bit in order before I start it up again). Going vegan seems like a largely symbolic gesture, and therefore not worth the hassle.
But yeah, people go along with whatever their context tells them is right, it's really quite difficult for a human to go against their context, probably because we evolved in tribes where being attuned with the context was critical to survival.
Since the context is so important, it's an extremely important task that the right people are in charge of defining it, which involves the right people knowing how to define the context in the first place.
Would assassination markets make genocides less likely?
For the animals, I really only care that they're not tortured (I can't imagine why someone would care whether a chicken does or does not live out their natural lifespan), and accordingly, 25% of my Giving What We Can Pledge goes to animal welfare charities (or at least it will once I set that up again, I need to get my finances a bit in order before I start it up again). Going vegan seems like a largely symbolic gesture, and therefore not worth the hassle.
But yeah, people go along with whatever their context tells them is right, it's really quite difficult for a human to go against their context, probably because we evolved in tribes where being attuned with the context was critical to survival.
Since the context is so important, it's an extremely important task that the right people are in charge of defining it, which involves the right people knowing how to define the context in the first place.