This is one of those stupid masturbatory questions that bothers me when either theists or atheists bring it up, because it totally ignores the real world. We are all raised in moral frameworks of families and societies, and are trained by the cultural mores and values of our tribes. There's no particularly good reason NOT to eat dogs, but we don't. We have good reasons to act as we do- we were brought up that way. In the US, we don't eat our dead (although we could). We don't allow angry husbands to stone adulterous wives to death (although we could). In other places, these are cultural norms, as are eating dogs. Some places even eat spiders (the most horrible thing I can think of. I'd WAY rather eat a dead person than a spider).
Why is this even an interesting question to anyone?
Why is this even an interesting question to anyone?
