Good.The human is dead.You're eating it.It is wrong to eat something that used to be living and did not consent, or have the ability to, consent./thread
If the being is incapable of consenting and doesn't even understand the proposition of being eaten after death, it is moral.
If it is immoral to eat a being that doesn't understand the concept of their body continuing on after death, it is equally immoral to do literally anything else with their body and I don't think even you believe that.
Quote from: Baha on January 09, 2015, 11:13:26 PM If the being is incapable of consenting and doesn't even understand the proposition of being eaten after death, it is moral.No it isn't, and I seriously hope you're just trolling if you think that.Quote from: Baha on January 09, 2015, 11:13:26 PMIf it is immoral to eat a being that doesn't understand the concept of their body continuing on after death, it is equally immoral to do literally anything else with their body and I don't think even you believe that.Lives = lives, no matter their intelligence. Eating something that lived, whether it had the ability to know it would continuing existing after death or not, is immoral.
Quote from: The Edgy Master on January 09, 2015, 11:18:53 PMQuote from: Baha on January 09, 2015, 11:13:26 PM If the being is incapable of consenting and doesn't even understand the proposition of being eaten after death, it is moral.No it isn't, and I seriously hope you're just trolling if you think that.Quote from: Baha on January 09, 2015, 11:13:26 PMIf it is immoral to eat a being that doesn't understand the concept of their body continuing on after death, it is equally immoral to do literally anything else with their body and I don't think even you believe that.Lives = lives, no matter their intelligence. Eating something that lived, whether it had the ability to know it would continuing existing after death or not, is immoral.Please explain to me why eating them is less moral than doing literally anything else, given the premise that they did not understand the concept of their body lingering after death and left you no articulation of their desires for what to do with it after death.The cow did not consent to you burying it's body after it died, therefore immoral.The cow did not consent to you leaving it's body to rot in the field after it died, therefore immoral.The cow did not consent to you holding a tasteful funeral service in its honor after it died, therefore immoral.
Let's bring our human back into it.They did not say what you should do with their body.Is it okay to eat them then?No, they should still be buried.A life is a life, whether or not it can communicate what it wants to happen after death doesn't matter.All deaths should be treated equally. In this case, our culture buries out dead. So we bury it.
Quote from: The Edgy Master on January 09, 2015, 11:30:33 PMLet's bring our human back into it.They did not say what you should do with their body.Is it okay to eat them then?No, they should still be buried.A life is a life, whether or not it can communicate what it wants to happen after death doesn't matter.All deaths should be treated equally. In this case, our culture buries out dead. So we bury it.If they didn't leave a will I believe the decisions go to next of kin but I'm no lawyer.How can you argue against anthropocentrism and then two sentences later tell me we should anthropocentrically treat animal deaths according to human culture as if that's something they would have wanted.The cow didn't consent to being buried, the cow has no existing culture that normalizes burial of the dead, nor could it because the cow doesn't even understand the concept to begin with. By your arguments burying the cow is immoral.
I'm arguing to do what you think is moral.If you think eating people is inherently wrong without consent then eating any other life without consent is wrong too.Because animals can't give consent to being eaten it is immoral.It is not considered immoral (in fact, it's considered very moral) to bury a dead person, thus it wouldn't be considered immoral to bury an animal.
Eating people after death without their consent is only wrong because people are capable of understanding and consenting to actions after their death in the first place.
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