Why use JSON Pointer? We already have structured data (JSON), so what's wrong with ["biscuits", 0, "name"] instead of "biscuits/0/name"? This sidesteps the escaping problem.
And the reason is clearly not brevity, given the rest of the spec.
Cultures of starvation. If rich Western countries were giving away all the perfectly good food they trash, I guarantee you eating arthropods would stop in a generation.
Yeah, sure, lobsters (which are also arthropods) only get eaten because people don't have anything else. /s
You could also pretty fairly argue that the entire point of social constructs like society is to avoid shivering in the cold, being murdered for your shiny rocks, or eating insects.
Agreed. But you have not presented any reason for putting "eating insects" in the same category as "shivering in the cold" and "being murdered for your shiny rocks". Some social constructs are useful, but they're not useful by virtue of being social constructs.
Yeah, sure ... just because the fly is black it has to be the fly murdering the butterfly and not the other way round ... /j