Mike CernovichVerified account

It would be moral to eat vegans.

'Excession' by Iain M. Banks (which I think is @elonmusk 's favorite book) is all about a morally superior Culture trying to reign in a sadistic alien species called 'the Affront' that eats & tortures lesser species just for fun. (And who would say 'lol bacon'.) Worth a read.

There's another Banks books involving a species whose social hierarchy was based largely around their performance in an extremely complex strategy game. Also worth a read

"To Serve Man"...it's a cookbook!!

When a bear or lion or some other Predator Animal eats a Human, is that an Immoral Act? Or simply Nature? In fact, when a Predator Animal eats a smaller animal, is that in Immoral Act? Or is that simply Nature? If ET naturally eats human flesh then that's Nature of the Universe

We don’t ascribe morality to animals because they do not have human levels of consciousness (and therefore cannot abstract right and wrong). Similarly to how we don’t ascribe morality to infants or the mentally ill.

Morality is group glue and meant to apply to the group. So morality doesn't apply here.

Obvious answer is that there is a minimum level of intelligence (or other measure) beyond which it is immoral to kill an entity for food. It's not just a matter of relative intelligence. It would be supremely weird of Good Will Hunting ended with Matt Damon eating Ben Afflek.

Animals eat each other, and they would eat to you if they were hungry.