(March 13, 2026 at 2:37 pm)Disagreeable Wrote: Is it morally permissible to kill and eat chimpanzees or bonobos?
It is, but why is it like that? Because people agreed to it, and people are the ones who set the rules. Although very few people eat chimps, probably because they look too much like humans.
Then there are also societies where it is morally acceptable to eat humans.
Also, I remember some 20 years ago there were images circling on the net of Chinese people cooking and eating human fetuses. I mean Albert Fish said he always wanted to try human flesh after hearing about cannibalism in China.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
