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If you could operate a series of trolley problems regarding sentience for the average vegan, would a somewhat quantifiable hierarchy arise?
For example, would a vegan save one human over three pigs, or over 100 pigs?
If a vegan could use vegan means to prevent the death of all mosquitoes without upsetting the ecology of the planet Earth, but the mosquitoes would then start infecting more humans with hazardous but non-deadly diseases, should the vegan attempt those means?
I can't speak for other vegans, but as a vegan, I'd pick an animal's life over a human's, so your trolly problem is easy for me. Fuck humans, there are over 8 billion of us and we don't need any more; fewer there are, the better it is for this planet.
Ecofascism? That you?