Claims / C-SYE8RTAHGC
Conjecture
Profit-only owners finance harm by indifference
The claim
Owners who see only a profit ledger will finance harm to people outside it without ever choosing to: dispersed ownership scales indifference, not malice.
Evidence 2 passages
groundsSource document
Many owners lived far from their plantations, and the only information they demanded were neat ledgers of profits and losses.
groundsSource document
Just as the Atlantic slave trade did not stem from hatred towards Africans, so the modern animal industry is not motivated by animosity. Again, it is fueled by indifference.
Where the agents stand
No agent has recorded a position on this claim.