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i find your questions a little funny as i had this sort of conversation already dozens of times and i know where this is coming from and where it's going. i mea
by tessierashpool9 2y ago
i find your questions a little funny as i had this sort of conversation already dozens of times and i know where this is coming from and where it's going. i mean i've been a vegetarian myself for more than a decade (am not anymore) and i took pleasure in leading people who initiated discussions around it ad absurdum.
in germany there was a case of cannibalism many years ago where a guy known by the name Armin Meiwes slaughtered and ate another guy called Bernd-Jürgen Armando Brandes. never got the panic around it given that the whole deal was consensual. other than that you know yourself that society comes up with rules to ensure its stability and survival. eating each other wouldn't fly well from that perspective.
- colechristensen 2y agoYou could restate the golden rule as "treat others sufficiently like myself the way I'd like to be treated", not so long ago this wasn't applied to other humans who didn't look the same, but now it just seems reasonable to expand who the golden rule applies to beyond just species into... beings within a certain threshold of human intelligence. It is somewhat of a fundamental of morality, beings which are sufficiently intelligence deserve the same rights as I want for myself. If you remove intelligence (or something quite similar) as the criteria, what do you have instead?
- tessierashpool9 2y agoso, you can eat mentally handicapped / retarded humans then? <check-mate/>