The Python wrote:Ok, so you are saying that animals don't matter because it's not productive. By this logic, deforestation is good because it's a good source of wood - after all, wild animals don't matter because they are not productive /sarcasm. Not everything has to do with productivity.
"Ambassador, your ability to totally misapprehend an argument is astonishing.
"Animals are productive. Preventing their suffering has limited utility. Lumber harvesting has utility. Too much is wasteful. That does not mean lumber operations are without utility. In fact, preventing overlogging has utility. Stopping lumber operations entirely to avoid tree suffering? No utility.
"Productivity is the reason for state existence. Animal suffering is only valuable insofar as its prevention provides value."