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It isn't a straw man, it is a one of the flaws in the relativistic position that you were holding.
Why is eating a human bad and dog ok? Why is a cannibalistic culture wrong for doing such?
When you begin to give off various reasons to support your position, keep in mind that others do the same concerning this and many other issues that conflict between cultures and their moral lines.
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And by the way, a straw man would be me adjusting your argument to a position of fallacy and then easily knocking down that fallacy. You simply did not consider your entire position and the weakness it has.
Now certainly you can tell us there are exceptions, but if we state according to relativistic position, "there are no absolutes" (I know, it is a failed philosophical statement, but I didn't create it, nor do I think it is correct), then you can not create exceptions as all must be equally valid with the only contingency of its correctness simply being the natural existence and function of its application. Since cannibalistic societies actually exist and have for ages, within specific societies, then according to that principal of relativism, it is valid.
So based on that position, it would be considered ethnocentric to call it wrong would it not?
Eating monkeys - as well as other primates - should be criticized strictly out of health concerns. It's risky to butcher and eat such evolutionarily closely related creatures. How do you think SIV/HIV made the jump from monkey to human?
That brings me, as a meat eater, to my 3 basic criterion for consumable animals:
1) Only tasty animals should be eaten
2) Only plentiful, non-threatened or non-endangered animals should be eaten
3) Evolutionarily close relatives of Humans - in other words other primates - should not be eaten for health reasons
So to answer the OP - no, it's not wrong to eat dog meat.
Mostly agree with this. I would also add that humans can get certain diseases from eating infected animals. For example eating beef from cows infected with BSE can cause certain degenerative nuerological disorders. We really should limit or even end the consumption of beef because of this issue.
YES. Dogs are unlike ANY other animal. What other animals can lead the blind, rescue/track a missing person, alert someone who has epilepsy or diabetes, locate cancer cells by smell?? The list of what canines are capable of is endless.
Pigs are smarter than dogs and they're whats for breakfast.
YES. Dogs are unlike ANY other animal. What other animals can lead the blind, rescue/track a missing person, alert someone who has epilepsy or diabetes, locate cancer cells by smell?? The list of what canines are capable of is endless.
Pigs are smarter than dogs and they're whats for breakfast.
True, but they have many limitations outside of such as it concerns practical use.
Dogs are predatory animals and make excellent hunter tools, protection, and companionship to which pigs, while maybe comparable in some abilities of a dog, lack the overall benefits of such.
YES. Dogs are unlike ANY other animal. What other animals can lead the blind, rescue/track a missing person, alert someone who has epilepsy or diabetes, locate cancer cells by smell?? The list of what canines are capable of is endless.
Pigs.
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