Philosophy Now Forum

Jeremy Bojczuk on the ethics of cannibalism.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/14/Eating_People

The problem, of course, is with eating people against their will (which is generally the case).

What an insane article. Is there nothing sacred in the world anymore? Is this what science has brought us to?

A thoroughly distasteful piece.

>The evidence is now overwhelming that consciousness is inseparable from electro-chemical processes within the brain and that an individual’s individuality is inseparable from the unique physical structure of that individual’s brain.

Not true. There is no such overwhelming evidence.


>Moral consideration can only be given directly to conscious entities.

Why? If consciousness is the result of electro-chemical processes alone, then where does moral consideration come in? I assume, in the view of Bojczuk, morality is simply consensus, or majority-think. If the consensus, or thinkin' of the majority, changes, then Swift's modest proposal moves from satire to public policy.

Look here (this seems to be the extent of Bojczuk's moral consideration): >So eating ex-people is not in itself wrong. Eating live people, however, is, because they wouldn’t enjoy it.

So, if someone would enjoy bein' eaten, it's permissible to slaughter and chow down.


>Eating people is not in itself wrong. Mistreating them, however, is.

Might as well say eating cows is not in itself wrong...mistreating them, however, is for all the difference it would make.

Cows possess a kind of consciousness, feel pain: we eat them anyway.

use crematoriums to generate electricity.