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There exist people who aren't braindead, but who don't have sufficient intelligence to have a concept of "being fair". I don't know where you got the idea that
by eurleif 14y ago
There exist people who aren't braindead, but who don't have sufficient intelligence to have a concept of "being fair". I don't know where you got the idea that they don't exist. (You may counter that even the least intelligent person will get angry if you attack them, and that's largely true; but the same is true of any animal, so we must be talking about a more complex understanding of fairness than that.)
And you could say that being part of a species gives you special moral standing if other members of your species have the attributes required for it, even if you don't personally have them, but it would be a completely arbitrary thing to say.
- Dylan16807 14y agoThey exist but they are far rarer than mere retardation. Rare enough that I'm just going to punt. The answer for them doesn't matter in the big picture.
- eurleif 14y agoMaybe not, but whether it's ok to eat animals does, and so does consistency. If the criteria you previously gave is really the criteria you believe makes it ok to kill/eat something, why aren't you willing to say it's ok to eat humans who meet the criteria?
- Dylan16807 14y agoI'm resistant because it's so hard to do a prudent level of testing on a single individual. If you have some method of determining that there is no shred of full-functioning in their brain, that they truly have the mind of a lower animal, that you can show this to others, then okay it's viable to eat them. But it still gives a misleading impression when someone hears you ate "a human".