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What’s a little cannibalism between leftie friends?

16 March 2018

4:23 PM

16 March 2018

4:23 PM

Richard Dawkins was recently described in Breitbart as a ‘professional atheist’. The epithet was added in a news article that reported his most recent twitter contribution to philosophical scholarship, the advocacy of cannibalism.

Dawkins’s contribution came in the form of a Tweet:

What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism? An interesting test case for consequentialist morality versus “yuck reaction” absolutism.

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