Article recommendation: Paul Bloom's Are women unsuited for the pursuit of truth? My comment: "The problem seems to be the assumption that the pursuit of 'truth' is what matters. Why would that be? Why not reducing suffering? Why not increasing human flourishing? (Or flourishing for all sentient individuals.)
"Personally, I think 'the pursuit of truth' is a cop-out to let people off the hook for actually making the world a better place."
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| These palm trees burned several years ago (see the blackened trunks) but have come back! |
As a follow-up to this, is the below something you've seen in SuzieVegan's feed or JamieV's substack:
That [vegetarian] movement has during the last ten years advanced more and more rapidly. More and more books and periodicals on this subject appear every year; one meets more and more people who have given up meat; and abroad, especially Germany, England, and America, the number of vegetarian hotels and restaurants increases year by year.
This sentiment has been expressed consistently (including by me) during my almost 40 years since giving up meat. But this particular quote is from Leo Tolstoy's First Step, published in 1891.
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