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If you knew human flesh to be the most tasty substance on Earth, would you want to keep eating it? (No, obviously eating people is not equivalent on all levels
by phonypc 5y ago
If you knew human flesh to be the most tasty substance on Earth, would you want to keep eating it?
(No, obviously eating people is not equivalent on all levels to eating non-human animals. But merely tasting good isn't a very sensible reason to eat something on its own)
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoI can find non-human animal meat for sale at the grocery store.
- ben_w 5y agoThat’s not relevant to the question asked. For some people, meat is a moral issue that makes the literal holocaust look like a one-off homicide, and must be utterly eliminated. (Personally, given what I believe about the nature of minds, I suspect the moral issue varies by species; but the number of dead is that order of magnitude). Other people believe it to be a mere personal health issue, which is basically just “you do you, none of my business”. Other people say the environmental consequences of meat production affect us all, and therefore needs to be minimised: here, if everyone wants it but only the super-rich can afford it, that’s still a win.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoIt is relevant. It tastes good and it's food. I know that it's food because it's sold as food in the grocery store. It's sold in the grocery store because my society has deemed it as edible food. It would be a strange world if human meat was somehow for sale in the grocery store. If I own a pet chicken and it lays an egg what do I do with it?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoSo what I'm hearing is, you would totally eat human meat and consider it food if only the society around you also did. You don't see anything wrong with that kind of reasoning? Really?
- rrss 5y agopretty sure this is just called “culture”
- ben_w 5y agoThat the idea is strange is irrelevant, because your previous line was not based on strangeness or availability, but on taste and personal desire.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoIf I own a pet chicken and it lays an egg, what do I do with it?
- ben_w 5y agoThat feels like it’s supposed to be a rhetorical question, but I don’t know what answer you’re expecting. Apart from anything else, the idea of a pet chicken is too far from my lived experience to properly imagine.