Sunday, January 1, 2012

On the consumption of human flesh and moral reprecussions. . .?

I confess-- I would be horrified too much to consider eating human meat. But if it had been served to me without my knowledge, and I had no hand in the death of the human that I had eaten, then I might not feel "bad" or "guilty" about having done so. I don't believe that I would cry, pray, be disgusted, or otherwise, but yes I would be shocked. And I would probably avoid the person that had served it. And I would never tell another person that I had that experience because of the reaction I would expect to get. There is a moral dilemma here, but decadence is not a word I would use. It just has never been a consideration of something that I might willingly do. It would not be shame that binds me to secrecy, but respect for others that would be negatively responsive to what had taken place. I am not above other animals, but even lions don't eat lions.

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