Well, the point was to remove all the practical objections. I know they’re magic fairy dust. I’m not expecting this to ever happen, nor do I have much of a desire for it to happen.
No, you just view morality on a purely practical level for this topic. Plenty of other people said that it’s still “just wrong.” Which was what I was expecting. I was trying to understand if for some people it was still “just wrong” and if there was any reasoning behind it.
I think you’re joking but I can’t tell. I also punched and strangled myself, and I never bit chunks out since that would require hospitalization.
Well, I think “shitting upstream from your drinking spot” is more of a practical thing what with all the diseases that can cause. But for whatever it’s worth, as long as birth control is used and any potential offspring aborted I see no problem in sleeping with your sibling. (For the record, I have no siblings so I may have no frame of reference for what that innate repulsion really feels like)
I am not sure about “morally”, because that involves weird concepts, but “ethically” - sure, there is no problem with it.
I would even go as far as to say that you could make an ethical argument for people volunteering to commit suicide to be eaten - or even buying someone’s limb in a non-lethal fashion. I would draw the line at a contract they couldn’t back out of though (i.e. no “great life on my dime for ten years then I will eat you whether you like it or not - make your choice now” type things)
I don’t think we can make a purely ethical argument against it other than the single objection which has already been raised, that of treating humans (regardless of awareness) as things, commodities. While I cannot think of any reason that bodies should not be consumed (other than the practical measures you hand-waved) there is a serious slippery slope argument inherent in treating humans as other meat products. Pretty much every human evil starts with treating your fellow human as a thing instead of your equal. For that reason alone I would oppose recreational cannibalism, though I’ve no objection whatsoever to cannibalism of necessity.
Whatever the objections are to eating human meat, wouldn’t they apply even more so to implanting donated organs?
I have no problem with the principle of cannibalism. There are practical issues like disease control, but the principle is fine by me.
Somebody could have their own leg blown off at the hip in a way that makes replanting it impossible, and might opt to eat their own leg meat later. I can’t think of a plausible reason for stopping them. Yet, somehow it seems likely that somebody probably would stop them.
Strangely enough, the question could be pertinent. In the past (excluding emergency situations, famine etc) longevity and warfare probably kept the question to a moral necessity.
Today’s population, spiked with unemployment and seniors, could be a basis for thought. Of course things come to mind, like hospitals and slaughterhouses, or does a vegetarian taste better than… Stocks of frozen meat are already building up (I’m not quite sure about the morals of eating Walt Disney) .
Judaism of course forbids cooking meat in its mothers milk, but though most religions impose some sort of respect for the deceased, one could easily imagine that these laws were based on sanitary necessity.
This said, same species feeding on themselves is not common, some will kill off youngsters, officially for dominance more than hunger. would have to check on scavengers. Even human cannibalism theory seems to fluctuate every few years or so. Ritual consumption of specific organs seems established, but the explorer in the pot seems to be much more of a legend.
Another nice thing about farm animals is that they don’t have medical insurance, or over the counter drug access (a bit of EPO maybe). I’m not sure that my morals go to ingesting 20 years of cough medicine.
Another thing for dainty people like me; carnivore’s meat stinks with a distinctive “garbage” odor. Cats, alligators, and so on are edible but with a lot of tabasco sauce. Dogs for consumption in Asia are brought up on specific diets. The omnivorous pig (like us) seems to be “our” exception.
Thank you Napier for saving my leg, but If I morally may, i’d prefer yours if you no longer need it.
Anyways, I think that it isn’t possible to start selling human meat with the kinds of constraints you listed. It would cost way too much because honestly, who is going to just turn themselves in like that? There would be a shortage of human meat that you could actually sell because there would be very few who would actually allow themselves to be killed. Due to its rarity, it could end up costing thousands of dollars, or at the very least, hundreds.
Also, what would the execution method be? I am not sure there is a humane method to kill someone that would be ideal for selling their meat.
Some years ago on a mailing list, someone mentioned that and several of the Brits on the list thought it was a typo for “dinner party”. They are even good at accidental irony.
I also punched and strangled myself, and I never bit chunks out since that would require hospitalization.