What's Wrong With Eating People?: 33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles by Peter Cave

Author:Peter Cave
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: History of Western philosophy, Humor, Miscellanea, Philosophy, General, English Satire And Humor, History of Ideas & Popular Philosophy, English, Modern Philosophy
ISBN: 9781851686209
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2008-12-25T08:00:00+00:00

Ethics/Animals/Cuisine

19

WHAT'S WRONG WITH EATING PEOPLE? or even WHO'S FOR DINNER?

'I could eat you,' she said, she with the sparkling white teeth and devouring eyes, her arms flung round my neck. How could I not be flattered, receiving such warm and welcoming attention, in the club that had just so eagerly admitted me as member?

'Who's for dinner?' some others asked. Well, I was hungry; and present were bright and beaming people - generous to boot, for no membership fee had been demanded. I was an honorary fellow, they said. Naive little me - little did I realize that my enthusiastic 'yes' to dinner would lead me to the cooking pot, not as guest diner or even guest chef, but - gulp - as guest 'about to be dined upon'. These people were generous sure enough, but generous to a fault, as I was soon to discover.

Serve Man was the club s motto - and it slowly dawned on me what this meant. Yes, cannibalism was alive and well in

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