garden/2025-12-15.md

• I just thought of suffering and what would amount to rational suffering.
  • Think of the suffering of the beings that die to feed others: some of that suffering is justified inasmuch it enables other conscious beings to subsist and negotiate ethical tradeoffs of their own.
  • When it is kept to a minimum, of course, we seem to arrive at the ethical optimum.
  • Think of worms getting grown and harvested for feed, but also of the beautiful bird hunted by the cat and the fish who die in the nets of fisherpeople.
  • See also: trolley science.
• I also worked and planned the week and did Agora.
• Two days of Agora journaling in a row? Is such a thing even possible? :)