(June 18, 2018 at 1:45 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: What is morally wrong with consensual cannibalism, other than it being icky?
I've thought about it, and it's the obvious presence of mental illness on one or both sides that presents a problem. You can't sign a legally-binding contract if you're nuts. You can't agree to be eaten because it means you're nuts, so we'd have no way of discerning whether the people involved were of sound mind. Also, it would usually constitute murder (it's murder even if the victim agrees to it, as the law stands), which is bad. It's a different story if the victim does the killing, but there's still the question of mental stability, which I think is insurmountable.
