Re:Intentional Fire-Spreading by “Firehawk” Raptors in North...
by vasilipupkin on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:45PM
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Infants are exempt because they are not less intelligent. They are humans with human potential. For example, it could be the next Einstein we are talking about or Elon Musk. It is yoi who is not making sense. You are doing exactly what you accuse me of doing. I don't want to eat other humans for the same rational reason I don't want to mass murder humans - I enjoy being part of a functioning human society. To equate this with eating a cow just makes no sense at all.
You are not making rational logical arguments. You have started with your preferred conclusion and are employing rationalization to justify it. Every time I show you that your philosophy allows for things you find uncomfortable, you move the goalposts.
Case in point:
>Also, discussing whether or not I would eat a human is silly because I can't go to the supermarket and buy human flesh. So, let's keep this discussion away from meaningless hypotheticals.
This is a copout that means "I am afraid of what my philosophy actually means, so let's just ignore it". You could easily acquire and consume an infant if you wanted. There'd be severe consequences for doing so, of course, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. People do do it. None of that is relevant to the question of whether or not it is morally permissible to do so, now is it?
But you, you're not interested in making sense. You're uncomfortable, so you rationalize. Oh, it's not ok to eat infants even though they're well below my IQ threshold, even though it's completely possible, because they aren't sold in the grocery store!
Please.