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My gut feel is that this is bat-shit crazy, but wouldn't it be amusing to see the response from the Jewish and Islamic world should it turn out that humans are
by duncan_bayne 13y ago
My gut feel is that this is bat-shit crazy, but wouldn't it be amusing to see the response from the Jewish and Islamic world should it turn out that humans are pig hybrids? ;)
- gojomo 13y agoVindication? The broad (though not universal) taboo against eating primate meat has some basis in the higher risk of shared/cross-species diseases, due to a closer genetic relationship. If there's a little pig in us, that'd argue for stronger taboos against eating pork... exactly as in Judaism and Islam.
- duncan_bayne 13y agoYes - I think many religious taboos have their basis in sensible food hygiene and incest avoidance. But that's not how it's pitched; often the claim is that "pigs are unclean". Which is why it'd be funny.
- floobynewb 13y ago@gojomo, this is what I had thought the original poster meant. Shame it was a better, nicer joke that way around.
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- to3m 13y agoI don't think human meat is currently kosher or halal, so would it really matter?
- tome 13y agoCertain Islamic radicals have called Jews the "descendants of apes and pigs". Perhaps these radicals are just excellent evolutionary biologists.