Would it be morally acceptable to eat an alien?

[Orang Utan]

Almost the opposite in that case, though. The Wub is a sensitive intelligent creature of the kind most meat eaters would not want to eat even if it were native to this planet.

In the story, all they care about at first is just eating it cos it is piggy.

 

[8ball]

I think we would end up classifying aliens as animals rather than vegetables, wouldn't you?

There could be alien vegetables. There might not even be an animal/vegetable distinction in the sense that we have here (though there would likely be a large distinct subset of carbon-fixing/silicon-fixing/whatever-fixing organisms).

Where's a xenobiologist when you need one, dammit!

 

[yardbird]

Eating has other meanings.
eating pussy
To have oral sex with a woman. Also known as cunnilingus. The eater can be either male or female, but the eatee must be a female, or some other cunted creature.

 

[8ball]

In the story, all they care about at first is just eating it cos it is piggy.

Yes, but they stop eating it because of an ethical dimension that is nothing to do with the creature's alien/non-alien status or human/non-human status.

 

[8ball]

Eating has other meanings.
eating pussy
To have oral sex with a woman. Also known as cunnilingus. The eater can be either male or female, but the eatee must be a female, or some other cunted creature.

I sense you're about to tell us a story about some kind of abduction...?

 

[8115]

Actually, an alien would have to be very significantly less intelligent that some animals (ie cow) that I do eat sometimes, before I would even entertain eating them. Not sure why.

 

[joustmaster]

I'd love to try some.

 

[Orang Utan]

Eating has other meanings.
eating pussy
To have oral sex with a woman. Also known as cunnilingus. The eater can be either male or female, but the eatee must be a female, or some other cunted creature.

Are you suggesting that you are more likely to have sex with an alien than eat one?
Steady on Captain Kirk!

 

[yardbird]

Are you suggesting that you are more likely to have sex with an alien than eat one?
Steady on Captain Kirk!

Just drawing attention to urbandictionary's definition.

 

[joustmaster]

Are you suggesting that you are more likely to have sex with an alien than eat one?
Steady on Captain Kirk!

could do both.

 

[yardbird]

In the story, all they care about at first is just eating it cos it is piggy.

lol

 

[yardbird]

Are you suggesting that you are more likely to have sex with an alien than eat one?
Steady on Captain Kirk!

There are creatures on planet Earth that have sex with and then eat their partner.

 

[Orang Utan]

There are creatures on planet Earth that have sex with and then eat their partner.

When in Rome...

 

[fishfinger]

When in Rome...

I live in Barking, but I still wouldn't eat a dog

 

[Orang Utan]

I live in Barking, but I still wouldn't eat a dog

What about an alien dog that tasted of ice cream?

 

[fishfinger]

What about an alien dog that tasted of ice cream?

It's tempting but I'm not allowed ice cream

 

[Orang Utan]

It's tempting but I'm not allowed ice cream

Healthy alien ice cream that made your heart stronger

 

[fishfinger]

Healthy alien ice cream that made your heart stronger

Are you sure you're not in sales? You are being very persuasive

 

[yardbird]

Sorry I lowered the tone
It would not be morally wrong if you had to eat it (the alien) to survive.
Think "Survival" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry I lowered the tone
It would not be morally wrong if you had to eat it (the alien) to survive.
Think "Survival" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster

You didn't lower it, you just broadened it

 

[DotCommunist]

even with a broadly and amazingly co-incidental similarity in life form the thing would be so alien you wouldn't have the gut fauna to process its corpse. So You'd if you were lucky shit and puke it out undigested or you would die.

 

[joustmaster]

You didn't lower it, you just broadened it

could do both.

 

[twentythreedom]

Poll fail

 

[The Octagon]

One of the reasons I'm comfortable eating a cow or pig is because I know it is unlikely to be backed up by a possible warship in high orbit.

So for that reason... I'm oot.

 

[Blagsta]

One of the reasons I'm comfortable eating a cow or pig is because I know it is unlikely to be backed up by a possible warship in high orbit.

So for that reason... I'm oot.

 

[Santino]

I don't understand the second bit (I'm not a vegetarian by the way).

Would you eat a human who through some genetic defect had exactly the same mental and emotional capacity as a cow?

 

[Orang Utan]

Would you eat a human who through some genetic defect had exactly the same mental and emotional capacity as a cow?

weltweit ?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I think we would end up classifying aliens as animals rather than vegetables, wouldn't you?

would we? a lot of people i know seem to classify fish as floating vegetables, cos they call themselves vegetarian.

 

[xes]

It's probably morally wrong to eat anything that's a living sentient creature who is aware of not wanting to being eaten. If you say it's fine for us to eat cows because we're more intelligent than they are, then it's fine for an alien race to eat us if they're more intelligent than we are. and at the end of the day, that's far more likely than us eating an alien race.

 

[innit]

weltweit ?

OooooOOooh.