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Anyone want to be a cannibal?


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Dawkins tweeted earlier this month that perhaps something like eating lab grown meats such as rats or pork could be done with human flesh, which would assist western culture in shedding yet another irrational remnant of its Judeo-Christian roots. He went on to explain more of his twisted rationale by saying: Eating lab-grown human meat would provide an “interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus ‘yuck reaction’ absolutism,” which keeps people from doing things just because they seem morally repugnant . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2023/04/anyone-want-to-be-a-cannibal/
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Words for the DayBy Bob Williamson