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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