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Originally Posted by Orgazmo
Oh, speaking sorta abstractly I guess--that the goal of evolution / natural selection is spreading the seed of a species. By factory farming these animals, we're making them prolific as fuck and spreading the seed far more than they would see via evolution.
Basically, if the goal of an entity's life is to make sure its genes are represented in future generations, farmed animals are doing a hell of a lot better than non-farmed animals (speaking generally).
Again, I'm not necessarily making this argument. But I could understand if someone did.
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So I reckon winning the replication competition isn't what life is all about, valence or pleasure is what matters, natural selection doesn't optimise for this. What matters is the pleasure-pain axis and currently it's recruited by natural selection for goal-oriented behavior. This might not always be the case, the functional role of pleasure could be outcompeted by something much closer to a hellstate.
The future could be a lot worse for our successors than it is for pigs.
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