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This is my first post here. Let me know your thoughts. If you'd like to chat more, you can reach me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sai-mupparaju/.

As much as a forum like this values traditional ideas of the rational mind, I've been reflecting a lot recently on whether or not this is truly the best way to go about things. More specifically, I began reading Notes from the Underground recently (I started 3 months ago and am 50 pages in). I came across a statement that I frequently find myself coming back to now and then.

Twice two makes four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death"; - Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Now, I understand the quote should be taken in the context of the broader sociopolitical...

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Rebutting Every Objection To Giving To The Shrimp Welfare Project

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If a dollar given to an organization has a sizeable probability of averting an enormous amount of suffering and averts an enormous amount of expected suffering, it’s very good to donate to the organization.
A dollar given to the shrimp welfare project has a sizeable probability of averting an enormous amount of suffering and averts an enormous amount of expected suffering.
So it’s very good to give to the shrimp welfare project.

Wouldn't it just be a lot more reasonable to only buy shrimp from farms that stun the shrimp before killing them? I could then... (read more)

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