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Aidan Alexander's avatar

Shrimpmas has been such a whirlwind I’m only just getting a chance to read this properly. It’s great!!! Well done

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Natalia Shtein's avatar

I’ve heard of the Tribe in India, in which each person lives till 120 at least, no cancer what so ever: they eat only raw fruits and vegetables, and dried ones in Spring. Maybe thats the way to go not to harm shrimps, cows, poultry, and not to cause sufferings at all? Just a thought. :)

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Bargain-bin Seldon's avatar

You've written a beautiful diagnostic, but I'm worried the cure is a different strain of the disease.

If we look at what EA offers psychologically speaking, we're trading "The Blues" for "The Audit"; it certainly feels colder, sharper, and more objective. Yet, it allows us to remain inside the engine of extraction with the impression we've hacked it. A pressure valve, just the same.

The shrimp will prefer the math to the music, and that's certainly reason enough. But we should be careful not to mistake the corner of the maze we've found, where the cheese tastes like moral clarity, as having escaped its confines.

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Daniel J's avatar

I am sympathetic to Shrimp Suffering, but fyi I think the constant asides about the reader being convinced are pretty annoying.

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Ari Shtein's avatar

fair enough: I wrote the thing, realized it was supposed to be driving donations, but also that I wasn't doing much donation-asking for the first 1500ish words, and figured I oughta fix that. I didn't want to do any of the work of restructuring the post in a compelling way, so just kinda slapped those in. Probably won't edit to remove them, but I can at least affirm and reckon with your lived experience in finding these annoying...

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Billy Hamilton's avatar

I found the asides amusing.

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Natalia Shtein's avatar

But i still would rather donate to Sudan refugees or Holocaust survivors than to a shrimp society. Sorry…

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Ari Shtein's avatar

If it's a matter of preferring humans to shrimp, I recommend the Malaria Consortium! (https://www.malariaconsortium.org/mc-us/how-to-donate-to-mc-us/donate-now-to-mc-us) And for Sudan specifically, I think SAPA (https://sapa-usa.org/donations/hope-for-sudan/) is considered pretty good...

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