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There are people who want to insist that, even in the absence of any actual wrongful harm committed against anyone, that it would still somehow be Very Bad and Wrong – as a moral matter – to eat a dead body. Whatever. There are lots of crazy people in the world and even more relatively sane people who hold crazy beliefs. I will leave them to their vegan craziness; I am sure that it gives them comfort in some crazy way.
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Tim, I have not been reading in quite some time. Your writing seems to have changed since last I frequented your posts. I am surprised to see you call people crazy for demanding that others not be considered consumables.
I cannot answer for the people you reference of previous conversations in which you claim people said that it is wrong to eat a dead body in every conceivable situation. For instance, I do not blame the plane crash victims forced to survive on the dead bodies of their fellow human travelers, but their actions were desperate and did not condone general consumption of human flesh. I’m not sure you can say that for the slippery slope caused by an endorsed situation to consume non-human flesh and if you are aware of how badly that went in the bible why would you argue in favor of it? No one should ever want to consume another being or their body parts, and it would be an extreme case to force someone do to that (plane crash on icy mountain).
I (and I am betting, you, also) are not in some circumstance where we are so desperate for survival that we must consider saving our own lives by consuming a dead body we find. The people who do legitimately find themselves in those situations are not really going to ruin all of veganism as they try to survive. Maybe the day when we really can address those issues is far in the future when we have liberated the crops being used to support animal exploitation, and peace is spreading. But, I think any legitimate discussion of these fantasies is premature. Right now, the people you and I meet who are able to add to the growing demand of animal-free products, end of the use of animals for entertainment, testing, transportation, pet-trade, or any other goods or services, and start the critical force toward the end of animal exploitation, need to focus on those goals and stop looking for excuses to justify their own desires. If you go dumpstering you can find plenty of animal-free food. Poorer countries depend on animal-free foods.
But, you did not say anything about a need. Your post seems to indicate that you want to argue in favor of eating found dead bodies for any reason. I don’t want to throw the word “crazy” around, but if I did it would not be at the people arguing against eating dead bodies.
Posted under “amateur” philosophy. That’s all that needs to be said.
Hi Lisa,
The point of the post is not to endorse anything. It is simply to note that, whatever other objections one may have to eating a dead body, when there’s no wrongful harm involved in how that body came to be dead, there’s nothing morally objectionable in eating a dead body.
Ellen, I suppose you think that professional philosophers are bound to disagree with me?
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