(August 23, 2010 at 5:08 am)lrh9 Wrote: I enjoy the idea of eating animal meat. I do not enjoy the idea of eating human meat.
There's the 'moral distinction'.
That's not a moral distinction. You have no way of criticising a cannibal, if that's your only defence for eating meat. Maybe you're okay with cannibalism, even if you personally dislike the idea... but I doubt it.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
