Various media reported on an online campaign calling on people to “donate any part of their body” to a new cannibal restaurant. They also advertised for an “open-minded surgeon.”
Oooooookay?!
This is assuredly an online p.r. stunt for something or other but it got me thinking, “Why not cannibalism?” Seriously. Many of the same arguments made in the defense of things like abortion, the legalization of drugs, and homosexual marriage could be used to legalize cannibalism.
If the sole arbiter of legality is the consent of adults, why not cannibalism?
Couldn’t you imagine the libertarian argument that if a restaurant is willing to pay for body parts or is simply asking for donated body parts, what’s the legal problem? Nobody would be forced to sell or donate body parts so it would simply be a free market.
If people have an absolute right to do with their bodies whatever they want as is often argued, don’t they have a right to decide what they want to do with their limbs and body parts? If people have the right to kill themselves why shouldn’t they also have the right to donate a few measly toes or limbs.
The right to privacy which has been extended to the slaughter of millions of unborn human beings in America alone should certainly allow for the donation of a little arm, leg, or fingers. Shouldn’t such a decision be left between a person and their chef?
August 30, 2010 at 2:40 am
It never ceases to amaze me the nasty places the 'logic' of the
Culture of Death can lead if only followed to its end.
August 30, 2010 at 2:45 am
Careful, "eminent domain" is just a thought away', "for the good of the people". First they come for your house……..
August 30, 2010 at 4:48 am
Well, thanks to this article it'll be a while before I order lady fingers.
August 30, 2010 at 3:00 pm
They can all have the middle finger on my right hand.
August 30, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Hey! Don't call 'em "cannibals". Call them "unconventional beef eaters."
-Theo
August 31, 2010 at 10:09 pm
What does the Cathecism say about canibalism? It might be one of those moral grey area like opposing social programs for the poor.