Including the cannibalism taboo. So are casket burial, cremation.
Dietary ethics are an attempt to arrogate to oneself an unwarranted special status of "not food" by othering some category of life.
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@chaosprime Does that account for part of the transgressiveness of oral sex? Or is that all sex-shaming? -
@jenphalian I think it does, now that you mention it.
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@chaosprime The essence of magical thought is that the blood in our bodies is somehow not the same as the water in the sea. -
@womzilla@chaosprime In that case, the people calling me from the Red Cross have a lot to answer for. -
@MrPersimmon@chaosprime Human blood is cheaper than red dye #2 and spilled more freely
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