Is cannibalism wrong, immoral, or unethical if it doesn't involve people being *intentionally* killed?
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Yeah but purity norms don't develop for no reason
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I could speculate on origins, but there's an important distinction between harm (rape, murder) and purity (cannibalism, incest) norms
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it isn't important that there isn't a "victim" given mutual consent (people who argue about prion disease or inbred children miss the point)
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elaborate one step more?
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I mean that because people are used to thinking of widely proscribed actions in terms of harm done, when it comes to purity violations, they...
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...(if they are arguing said violations ought to be punished) try to construct the violation in terms of harm norms because it's how they think of transgression
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eg "close relation incest is wrong because it could produce a malformed child, the victim of the action!" what if they use birth control and if it fails abort? "there's still a chance!" etc
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when the right argument is, it's banned because it's so disgusting that it offends our sensibilities as a society
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