My sister was a vegetarian for 15 years before I became one. She normalised it for me. I think I've normalised it for other people. This sort of ripple effect is impossible to measure but it gives us more reason to uphold admirable behaviour.

Thank you for your work Marie

You’re doing incredible good by giving so much and you’re doing incredible good by inspiring others to give too

The calculations around shrimp welfare have very high uncertainty. Look at the confidence intervals on the rethink priorities welfare ranges. Why this uncertainty is workable and demodex mite uncertainty is not I’m not clear on.

“But those guys almost definitely aren't conscious”. Based on what?

I find that the simplest argument against the shrimp welfare movement is that if the same reasoning is applied to demodex mites or nematodes you could easily come up with expected value calculations that prove that every pursuit of humanity is irrelevant in comparison to the importance of our finding a solution to the suffering of these microscopic organisms.

Reductio ad absurdum, therefore these expected value calculation Fermi estimates are probably not a complete and or maybe even useful approach to ethics.

I can’t see where you’ve mentioned the case numbers, which seem to be quite low.

Wikipedia says:

2008, more than 50 cases/year were reported from only 4 countries: Turkey, Iran, Russia and Uzbekistan

From 1995 to 2013, 228 cases of CCHF were reported in the Republic of Kosovo, with a case-fatality rate of 25.5%.[24]

Between 2002–2008 the Ministry of Health of Turkey reported 3,128 CCHF cases, with a 5% death rate

Understanding that there are a few hundred rather than thousand or million cases of the disease around the world annually is important context because it makes it more difficult to fight cost-effectively

Haven’t heard of this one before though, thank you

A big fear that drives concern about euthanasia is that we’ll end up in a world where people who don’t really want to die will feel pressured to kill themselves because they don’t want to be a burden on the health system or their loved ones.

Moral arguments like this one are the exact sort of thing that’s stopping euthanasia from being accessible in the cases where it would be clearly good (e.g. end stage terminal cancer causing severe pain)

Disappointing