Veganism?

[reverendjeremiah]

Actually, it does.

Remember there were religious groups who gleefully sacrificed infants to the 'gods.' People can rationalize damn near anything if you give them half a chance.

You are free to advocate for cannibalism. You are not free to kill people and eat them. That is because the constitution protects speech not conduct.

Now we are getting somewhere.

Yes, people can rationalize damn near everything. Which is why, in order to separate the rationalized from the truly rational, we need objective standards.

Right now, I'm not free to kill and eat anyone I want because of the constitutional "right to life" given to every human being. But is this right given arbitrarily or is there a rational basis?

If it is arbitrary, what, other that popular vote, would stop it from changing to the way it was in the past? When the right was given only to the religious people or only to men or only to whites?

If there is an objective reason, what is it? What objective reason is there that this right is given exclusively to human beings and not to any other animal or plant?

All rights are arbitrary. Every single right on that constitution was voted up or down by people.

Now...since you keep pushing the topic. If you want to be a cannibal, I would first ask you what kind of cannibal would you be. there are 2 kinds of cannibals I am aware of:

#1 - The most popular kind, these cannibals do not eat people for food, nor do they kill people to eat them. This kind of cannibal eats their dead tribesmen. Everytime a member of the tribe dies, the entire tribe cooks him and eats him. Their cemetary is in their stomach.

#2 - Hannibal lecter....loves eating human liver with fava beans and a nice kianti.

So I am guessing you want to be #2. Have at it bro. by all means if you want to eat humans then do it. You better be pretty slick and pretty strong to try to kill and eat me, because I guarentee I will fuck you up something bad if you tried to eat me or my family.

But no, ultimately NOTHING is stopping you from eating humans. In this world, ANYTHING goes...rights are merely opinions that people have voted to agree upon.