Rationally, what could be wrong with creating a company to harvest the flesh of dead humans for food?

Question

Let us keep our arguments only rational. If I start a company that pays the living to will me their bodies upon passing naturally, so that I can process them into food for those consumers who would be attracted to the novelty or taste; what can be morally wrong with that?

It being disgusting is not an argument as you do not have a right to deny others their choices because of your asthetic principles. The surviving relatives emotions are also irrelevant, as the living person has made a conscious choice that I should recieve their body.

Let us assume I process the bodies so the food is safe and nutritious.

Kuru comes from eating the brain and spine of infected individuals. We would not use those parts, or harvest people who are from the area of the world kuru exists in.

Answer 1

Wow, it seems that you are striving for today's nitpicker medal. Anyway, the way you put it, it would be perfectly okay from a rational moral point of view, as long as you force no one to actually eat it, and the products are labelled correctly. (Do you know the "Soylent Green" movie?)

Answer 2

Since rationality obviously has no component part to play in your misguided understanding of what morals are, I can only conclude the obvious LEGAL consequences of such stupidity has completely evaded any prior idea that you need psychiatric intervention, will or no will. Besides, WHO would will there body to YOU in the first place? I saw your last stupid question about fetuses. Pal, you need to have your *** in a padded room with no windows. Stop watching so much TV or whatever the hell you're watching. Run an ad in your town newspaper about this and tell me all about it when you get out of the looney farm. You have no argument- only a mental disease which for you means there's nothing wrong with you that a brain transplant wouldn't cure.

Answer 3

Okay, forget all the moral stuff. You would want to eat the flesh of humans considering what people do to their bodies? No way. Think about it. Cattle, swine, poultry, all their feed is regulated for a pretty specific purpose, quality of the end product. This is why wild game tastes much different than those raised for public consumption. So, unless you're ranching a bunch of fenced in vegetarians, it's not a great idea. We'd all be sick, the quality would stink.

Answer 4

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww................

Well... ok.....

1. Its Cannibalism.

2. Its CANNIBALISM.

Seriously, don't you see anything wrong with that? They're your fellow human beings, you're disrespecting the dead, and the families that they're related to.

Now, I won't say that desperation couldn't drive a person to such a act, but ewwwwwww.... not unless you were on the verge of death.

Human beings do NOT eat other human beings. Its called being respectful. We got over that awful part of humanity, now we have other nasty stuff to learn to get over.

Answer 5

People can choose to donate their bodies to science, so why not use their bodies to feed the starving? You could prevent world hunger.

Answer 6

The disease called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) has a counterpart in humans.
Kuru.
http://whyfiles.org/012mad_cow/6.html

http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/research/archives/2003/our_cannibal_chromosomes4520.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeld-Jacob_Disease

These diseases or very hard to eliminate by cooking, so cannibalism is not a good idea. Sorry.

Answer 7

since everything is consensual, the only way something would be wrong with it is if an external and arbitrary moral law said there was.

Answer 8

Its a renewable resource so why not? I'd sign up for a people platter!

Answer 9

soylent green (movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

Answer 10

Are you hungry now?