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Sol Hando's avatar

It seems there’s an opportunity for an unholy alliance between the Fish Welfare enthusiasts and the Anarcho-Libertarians.

Give me 5 years and I’ll have every environmental and fishing regulation done away with. Competition with the tragedy of the commons will reduce fish populations in the ocean ten fold and pollution will completely eliminate them in the inland waterways.

We can skim a few percent off the top of this booming GDP and pay for whatever EA movement you feel particularly interested in. Less fish, increased economic growth, and a nice pile of cash to put towards other causes (perhaps bringing back DDT and other hyper-effective pesticides. Forget Malaria nets, we will wipe the mosquito from the face of the earth) seems like a pretty good deal to me.

(I wonder if insects will be our next target once we’ve dealt with the fish issue?)

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

I have one question: how the hell did I end up subscribing to this page? You are obviously insane. Sweet Jesus, at least it’s not a paid subscription.

By the way, taking your argument to its logical conclusion, we’d enact the “Ultron Solution.” Wipe out all life on Earth and no more animal suffering!

And, since growing food, even grains and vegetables, involves killing field mice and insects, you should probably commit suicide to avoid wholesale insect suffering.

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