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WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
dna_level_c:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 05 Oct 2016, 20:14 ---I'm talking, of course, about Robot Hand. :roll:
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This would be a good time to use the dermal covering.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 06 Oct 2016, 00:53 ---Damn. He must be really shy.
Either that or it's his shyness + Brun's stare (ᓀ_ᓂ), and he's trying not to hut her feelings.
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I think it's the stare. He had a crush on Padma too, but didn't get this flustered about it.
Case:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 05 Oct 2016, 20:44 ---
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--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 13:28 ---I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.
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I'm fairly certain that a quite a few bio-chemists and cooks will disagree with you on that. Especially when it comes to arthropods.
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I meant philosophically, not physically.
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In some respects I'd agree with you - in sofar as I would not attribute any innate properties to human flesh that makes it "holier" than that of animals. But when you take into account that we are a highly social, cooperative species with a "theory of mind" (the ability to mentally "take the other's place" and use that in order to have a limited ability of predicting others future reactions to our actions), there are other aspects:
(click to show/hide)Imagine somebody you love being dead - and imagine someone else treating their flesh with disrespect, or even "desecrating" it (or eating it). My personal reaction is an immediate, visceral rage. I'm pretty sure I would attack that person almost instantly.
I think that's because I view their flesh as belonging to them - in the sense of ownership - so while the mind and soul I loved may be gone, I would not tolerate disrespect or hostility shown towards what once was their most intimate belongings. Like I would not tolerate disrespect shown to belongings that my loved ones once held dear - even more so, in fact. Disrespect shown to their flesh is disrespect shown to the person I loved.
While not everybody might share that view, most functional human beings have enough "theory of mind" to predict my hostile reaction - and hence they would be very cautious.
There's lots of speculation around the taboo against human cannibalism - there are some very good medical reasons against consuming our own dead, the most dangerous one being that it's an excellent way to contract prion-related diseases similar to Alzheimers. Members of your own species have the same immune-system vulnerabilities that you do - whatever nasty shit they have swimming around in their bodies is highly likely to be dangerous to you, too - whereas the number of diseases that are able to jump species are limited.
sitnspin:
I have been to enough funerals in my time to not see the body as anything special. Once brain activity ceases, the person I love no longer exists. When I look at a corpse at a viewing, I don't get the emotive response that I am looking at the person, I just see an inanimate object.
You might be misunderstanding my position. My position isn't that human meat is okay to eat because other species meat is. My position is that it is all gross. Not immoral, in my opinion, just gross.
USS Martenclaire:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 05 Oct 2016, 13:17 ---
I've punched through a window before, albeit a pretty thin pane.
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I put my hand through a window once. I was in pane afterwards.
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