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So, cannibalism is ok according to you guys. Circle of life. How replusively immoral the world has become.
What exactly makes cannibalism any more immoral than the multitude of other things we do to diminish one another? We are but glorified scavengers who due to some seemingly unlikely quirk of evolution developed a brain and body capable of progressively improving tools through iteration, which propelled our unlikely slow and weak species to the top of the food chain.
Besides, everyone knows that the other is not intelligent, compassionate, moral or otherwise human. Which reduces them to simply another good source of protein.
Besides, everyone knows that the other is not intelligent, compassionate, moral or otherwise human. Which reduces them to simply another good source of protein.
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Plus Joyless cannibalism has been around for thousands of years and is still of common practice among African and south American tribes in jungle regions.
Plus Joyless cannibalism has been around for thousands of years and is still of common practice among African and south American tribes in jungle regions.
Actually humans are some of the most capable predators on the planet, even without tools
Besides, everyone knows that the other is not intelligent, compassionate, moral or otherwise human. Which reduces them to simply another good source of protein.
I suppose then you wouldn't mind if some aliens with superior intelligence hunted your wife/girlfriend, stuck an apple into her mouth, and roasted her body on top of a fire?
Only because an animal is intellectually inferior to us, that doesn't mean we have the moral right to breed and slaughter it for meat purposes.
Plus Joyless cannibalism has been around for thousands of years and is still of common practice among African and south American tribes in jungle regions.
So, cannibalism is okay because some tribes in Africa/South America/PNG still practice it commonly. Hmm, very interesting logic.
I suppose then you wouldn't mind if some aliens with superior intelligence hunted your wife/girlfriend, stuck an apple into her mouth, and roasted her body on top of a fire?
Only because an animal is intellectually inferior to us, that doesn't mean we have the moral right to breed and slaughter it for meat purposes.
Plus Joyless cannibalism has been around for thousands of years and is still of common practice among African and south American tribes in jungle regions.
So, cannibalism is okay because some tribes in Africa/South America/PNG still practice it commonly. Hmm, very interesting logic.
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Nature has provided us with plenty of abhorrent strategies and behaviors, from dolphin gang rape to wasps laying their eggs inside of tarantulas, just to give two commonly known examples.
I hope you are just trolling, but if not, you seem to be setting yourself up to proclaim how veganism will save the world or some other silliness. I don't have a problem with folk who choose to limit themselves to strictly plant based diets of whatever strictness they adhere to. I just think it's a bit naïve to assume that doing so is more righteous than the consumption of meats as there appears to be some evidence that plants communicate and respond to predation.
That said, I will now answer your query. Would I mind? Yes. Of course I would. I have an emotional attachment to my wife, and I would also mind if the same were to happen to any of our three cats- despite my repeated and emphatic threats to feed them all to the bunnies and the squirrels. However, I also recognize that there are a multitude of other deaths or ailments such as cancer or Alzheimer's that could cause her even more suffering. Or in the blink of an eye, a car accident that leaves her in severe pain for years or decades. Life / nature isn't fair no matter how butt hurt we get about it. Frankly, I would rather her have as short and pain free a death as possible.
As to cannibalism, I imagine most folk have an equivalent disgust reaction to the idea of eating insects. While a form that involves consuming parts of a dead loved ones remains as part of the funeral / grieving tradition might be tolerated, it otherwise breaches the public trust and leads to social break down of larger groups of mixed tribes. I don't really see this as being any different than the current religious / fundamentalist vs modernity conflict afflicting particularly the mid east. Or whatever your views may be on the Black Lives Matter movement, the breakdown in trust between the police and black communities. I would hazard there are worse 'evils' in the world than cannibalism which barely happens outside of a few remote cultures.
I hope you are just trolling, but if not, you seem to be setting yourself up to proclaim how veganism will save the world or some other silliness. I don't have a problem with folk who choose to limit themselves to strictly plant based diets of whatever strictness they adhere to. I just think it's a bit naïve to assume that doing so is more righteous than the consumption of meats as there appears to be some evidence that plants communicate and respond to predation.
That said, I will now answer your query. Would I mind? Yes. Of course I would. I have an emotional attachment to my wife, and I would also mind if the same were to happen to any of our three cats- despite my repeated and emphatic threats to feed them all to the bunnies and the squirrels. However, I also recognize that there are a multitude of other deaths or ailments such as cancer or Alzheimer's that could cause her even more suffering. Or in the blink of an eye, a car accident that leaves her in severe pain for years or decades. Life / nature isn't fair no matter how butt hurt we get about it. Frankly, I would rather her have as short and pain free a death as possible.
As to cannibalism, I imagine most folk have an equivalent disgust reaction to the idea of eating insects. While a form that involves consuming parts of a dead loved ones remains as part of the funeral / grieving tradition might be tolerated, it otherwise breaches the public trust and leads to social break down of larger groups of mixed tribes. I don't really see this as being any different than the current religious / fundamentalist vs modernity conflict afflicting particularly the mid east. Or whatever your views may be on the Black Lives Matter movement, the breakdown in trust between the police and black communities. I would hazard there are worse 'evils' in the world than cannibalism which barely happens outside of a few remote cultures.
I hope you are just trolling
surely you are joking, Fluffy?
surely you are joking, Fluffy?
cannibalism which barely happens outside of a few remote cultures
You rang?
You rang?
"So, cannibalism is ok according to you guys. Circle of life. How replusively immoral the world has become."
Cannibalism is not innately immoral. Killing somebody against their will just because you want to eat them is immoral (since we have better ways to feed ourselves), but just eating somebody who is already dead isn't immoral (unless it's theft, of course; you should only eat bodies that belong to you).
That said, cannibalism is still a pretty bad idea: the more biologically similar your food is to you, the more likely the food is to be carrying diseases you're susceptible to. Another problem is the accumulation of prions.
"I don't have a problem with folk who choose to limit themselves to strictly plant based diets of whatever strictness they adhere to. I just think it's a bit naïve to assume that doing so is more righteous than the consumption of meats as there appears to be some evidence that plants communicate and respond to predation."
I agree that killing plants isn't a great thing to do. However, it is not necessary to kill plants to live off them. Eating a fruit does not harm the plant that produced it; in fact, the fruit is intended to be eaten as part of the plant's seed distribution strategy. Just because most vegans and vegetarians are too stupid to get it right doesn't mean that it isn't possible to have an ethically superior diet. :P
Though personally, I don't really care if thousands of oat plants underwent a chemical reaction that caused them to emit some pheromones in the process of them being harvested to make my oatmeal. I don't care about the billions of microbes I kill each time I cook my food. I don't care about the fleas who die when I de-flea my cat. I am their Azathoth, and that is fine by me.
Cannibalism is not innately immoral. Killing somebody against their will just because you want to eat them is immoral (since we have better ways to feed ourselves), but just eating somebody who is already dead isn't immoral (unless it's theft, of course; you should only eat bodies that belong to you).
That said, cannibalism is still a pretty bad idea: the more biologically similar your food is to you, the more likely the food is to be carrying diseases you're susceptible to. Another problem is the accumulation of prions.
"I don't have a problem with folk who choose to limit themselves to strictly plant based diets of whatever strictness they adhere to. I just think it's a bit naïve to assume that doing so is more righteous than the consumption of meats as there appears to be some evidence that plants communicate and respond to predation."
I agree that killing plants isn't a great thing to do. However, it is not necessary to kill plants to live off them. Eating a fruit does not harm the plant that produced it; in fact, the fruit is intended to be eaten as part of the plant's seed distribution strategy. Just because most vegans and vegetarians are too stupid to get it right doesn't mean that it isn't possible to have an ethically superior diet. :P
Though personally, I don't really care if thousands of oat plants underwent a chemical reaction that caused them to emit some pheromones in the process of them being harvested to make my oatmeal. I don't care about the billions of microbes I kill each time I cook my food. I don't care about the fleas who die when I de-flea my cat. I am their Azathoth, and that is fine by me.
As a great man once said, it's only cannibalism if we're equals.
Haha I love hannibal the show!!!!
stupid nbc had to cancel it rar.
stupid nbc had to cancel it rar.
Damn you Savet! Now I can't see 'rar' without hearing it backwards in my head.
stupid nbc had to cancel it rar.
Then torrent it.
Then torrent it.
stupid nbc had to cancel it rar.
Then torrent it.
/facepalm/
What happened, Joyless? You're usually relatively astute.
Then torrent it.
/facepalm/
What happened, Joyless? You're usually relatively astute.
Torrent the none existing stuff. Yes. Great idea.