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Doesn’t this imply any level of suffering, no matter how extreme, can be tolerated so long as we attach a market price to it? All the same, I’m sure it would f
by atweiden 5y ago
Doesn’t this imply any level of suffering, no matter how extreme, can be tolerated so long as we attach a market price to it?
All the same, I’m sure it would fit in well with the general theme of the financialization of everything.
- qualudeheart 5y agoNo you can apply an infinite negative value/infinite cost and use that to bootstrap deontological ethics. You would do this in a mathematical system where only a single infinity exists since otherwise you might get some weird utilitarian algebra with infinities which would ruin the simplicity of deontology.
- atweiden 5y agoBut anything less than an infinite tax on animal slaughter would be akin to outright tolerating extreme suffering of a living thing so long as someone is willing to pay for it. I can’t see any difference between an infinite tax and just banning animal slaughter.