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Reaction 1. Humans are animals: you honestly don't care that humans think and feel. Ergo, you exhibit psychopathic traits. Reaction 2. Unless of course you mea

Reaction 1. Humans are animals: you honestly don't care that humans think and feel. Ergo, you exhibit psychopathic traits. Reaction 2. Unless of course you meant non-human animals. In which case why the arbitrary distinction? In this case you're not just saying that you have different values, you're saying that your morality is capricious and whimsical. Reaction 3. By all accounts humans and pigs taste very similar, Google 'long pig' for evidence. Pigs taste good to you, therefore humans taste good to you. If you make the claim (for whatever reason) that you are not interested in eating humans subsequent to the claim that eating things that taste good is more important to you then you'll have to excuse us while we bend our minds around the cognitive dissonance. Besides you are only able to make such a provocative claim because culturally and legally we live in societies where eating meat is okay - though few people take the radical stance that you do because most people have compassion for non-human animals regardless of whether or not the meat of the animal is pleasing to their taste buds for evolutionary reasons. Since you are being frank and honest, let me be frank and honest - I find your viewpoint repellent, I would go stronger than that, you disgust me. But, hey, they're just my values, go figure.

akiselev 14y ago
Since when is being a member of the same species an arbitrary distinction?
jlgreco 14y ago
> you're saying that your morality is capricious and whimsical. Sure, why not? I am okay with being capricious and whimsical if that means having different standards for members of my species. > Reaction 3. By all accounts humans and pigs taste very similar, Google 'long pig' for evidence. Pigs taste good to you, therefore humans taste good to you. As I have pointed out. > If you make the claim (for whatever reason) that you are not interested in eating humans subsequent to the claim that eating things that taste good is more important to you then you'll have to excuse us while we bend our minds around the cognitive dissonance. I believe I have covered this in "reaction 2". > though few people take the radical stance that you do This is not particularly important to me, but I suspect most omnivores do (although they are unable or unwilling to express their sentiments as bluntly/honestly.) > I find your viewpoint repellent, I would go stronger than that, you disgust me. But, hey, they're just my values, go figure. I expect that. That does not bother me at all. I'll go as far as to say that expecting another reaction from you would be rather unreasonable of me. However I do hope that you understand that the feeling is not mutual.

akiselev 14y ago

Since when is being a member of the same species an arbitrary distinction?

jlgreco 14y ago

> you're saying that your morality is capricious and whimsical. Sure, why not? I am okay with being capricious and whimsical if that means having different standards for members of my species. > Reaction 3. By all accounts humans and pigs taste very similar, Google 'long pig' for evidence. Pigs taste good to you, therefore humans taste good to you. As I have pointed out. > If you make the claim (for whatever reason) that you are not interested in eating humans subsequent to the claim that eating things that taste good is more important to you then you'll have to excuse us while we bend our minds around the cognitive dissonance. I believe I have covered this in "reaction 2". > though few people take the radical stance that you do This is not particularly important to me, but I suspect most omnivores do (although they are unable or unwilling to express their sentiments as bluntly/honestly.) > I find your viewpoint repellent, I would go stronger than that, you disgust me. But, hey, they're just my values, go figure. I expect that. That does not bother me at all. I'll go as far as to say that expecting another reaction from you would be rather unreasonable of me. However I do hope that you understand that the feeling is not mutual.