Kumika no Mikaku

So cute...

So pure...

So...

/dies.

You have to admit that amount of money is tiny when you think about how far the packet has to travel...

Damn. I want a piggyback ride from her too.

Poor Eiria. None of the current cast is tall enough to give her one...

Eiria best girl.

10 chapters but already a masterpiece 

this author knows whats up

Damn. I want a piggyback ride from her too.

BREAKING NEWS: Photo leak reveals what she looks like under that mask

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i'll ship them...

Eating mapo tofu without rice? What kind of heresy is this.

You are making a whole lot of assumptions there mister.

 

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I am not a vegetarian, i just found funny how damn stupid the concept of receiving something into your system was as a justification.

 

Cannibalism in itself is a huge grey area, which status as taboo constantly changes thought geography and time, so that's not even that big of an issue if you want to reefer to a historical view of the evolution of humanity's diet, i have been kind of curious about what properly cooked human meat taste likes, and in so far there has not been a consensus in the topic, the more reliable source to date is a scientific experiment in which the harvested meat was never tasted but analysed using the odor and consistency of the meat, and it turned out to be a mix between beef and pork, which is in a way kind of disappointing for me since i don't like pork all that much.

 

In my joke i never said i was going to use industrial methods, which is in so fact the least concerning factor when discussing cannibalism, hypothetically speaking of course, they would be "free range" humans, and lead perfectly happy and satisfying lives amid their ignorance, a way better argument could be made coming from a Kantian point of view in which the instrumentalization of humans is put into question, as a matter of facts Kantian ethics is one of the prime examples of a system in which cannibalism would not be a grey area, other ones like utilitarianism will let you get away with it under plenty of scenarios, like the ones proposed by you.

 

If the only factor is their level of consciousness that can be easily solved by raising humans with neurodeficiencies that would affect their prefrontral lobes along with their limbic systems (for emotional manipulation, which would eliminate the entire problem of pain) so that they would be cognitively limited to the same level or below that of sentience found in other cattle, which is actually quite high, so if that's really the parameter you want to use we would need to only eat brain death animals, or insects, and insects themselves would start bringing certain levels of challenges within this topic. 

 

Lab grown human meat would be way efficient, and would allow the control of diseases like prion diseases, while also avoiding the whole deal of killing for sustenance, but it would still be cannibalism, improper under many systems, but perfectly fine if we follow your parameters.

 

Thank you for having the common decency to keep your block of text in spoilers. I wish other people were as nice as you.

Next, OMG this chapter was amazing!!!

The biggest reveal of the chapter, once upon a time Izuru used to have hair on his head!

Your analogy isn't accurate at all, because you're talking about a human child. First off, humans are sentient, and communicate their thoughts. Which makes killing a human for consumption a lot more morally questionable. Not saying that killing animals for food doesn't make me think about it, but I definitely don't value an animal's life the way I do another person's.

 

Secondly, since you're presumably also a human, eating another human would be cannibalism. Now, you may be thinking that this is a human taboo, many animals resort to cannibalism in the wild. However, then you'd have to ask yourself whether you're selectively choosing what rules to abide by. Vegetarianism isn't a natural phenomenon in humans, we developed by eating meat. So either your premise, i.e, that eating meat is morally wrong, is flawed, or your argument is.

 

That's not to say that I don't have any problems with industrial farming, it's an ugly solution to an ugly problem. But to suggest that it's on the level of raising children for human consumption, or to completely condemn all manducation of meat, is also problematic in its own way.

You are making a whole lot of assumptions there mister.

Hey, as much as I can appreciate a civil discussion on philosophy (and presently the morality of eating meat), it is also very off topic. As stated in the comments section guidelines, it should be kept to a forum thread. I personally don't like seeing comments sections close because, to me, reading the comments is half the fun of this site.

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You can feel the yandere in him in that picture.

Except the heart isn't at his eyes only his face 

XD

Truly, TRULY won't be Batoto comment section otherwise.

Man I wish this was Danbooru instead, at least they teach fucking rocket science and both general + niche knowledge in the comments over there, other than commenting on the pictures.

as a respect for other creatures that lost their lives, in order to prolong ours.

 

I don't think being a vegan is the answer.

I think it's enough just to be grateful, respectful, and live your best as a tribute to your meal.

Unless you have a specific medical condition or don't have access to healthy and affordable plant-based alternatives (possibly with supplements or fortified foods, and, in particular, containing B12, which there's a good chance you'll need to supplement as you get older, anyway), then it's not really a matter of prolonging your life at all. What reasons are left, and do they justify the harm done to these animals? 

Animals also aren't comforted by our gratitude and tributes after they're killed, and killing them in the first place doesn't seem very respectful (except perhaps to euthanize them when their suffering overtakes the good in their lives and it's not expected to improve, a situation that even humans may face).

On the health of a vegan diet, see the positions of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietitians of Canada, The British National Health Service, The British Nutrition Foundation, The Dietitians Association of Australia, The United States Department of Agriculture, The National Health and Medical Research Council, The Mayo Clinic, The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Harvard Medical School. Here for them summarized all together. 

Your analogy isn't accurate at all, because you're talking about a human child. First off, humans are sentient, and communicate their thoughts. Which makes killing a human for consumption a lot more morally questionable. Not saying that killing animals for food doesn't make me think about it, but I definitely don't value an animal's life the way I do another person's.

 

Secondly, since you're presumably also a human, eating another human would be cannibalism. Now, you may be thinking that this is a human taboo, many animals resort to cannibalism in the wild. However, then you'd have to ask yourself whether you're selectively choosing what rules to abide by. Vegetarianism isn't a natural phenomenon in humans, we developed by eating meat. So either your premise, i.e, that eating meat is morally wrong, is flawed, or your argument is.

 

That's not to say that I don't have any problems with industrial farming, it's an ugly solution to an ugly problem. But to suggest that it's on the level of raising children for human consumption, or to completely condemn all manducation of meat, is also problematic in its own way.

Not all humans can communicate their thoughts, whether due to their age (infants) or differences in cognitive development, so we could apply it to them only. This is the "argument from marginal cases". There's also a lot of evidence supporting the sentience of nonhuman animals, to varying degrees of sentience and subject to their limited capacities to communicate, of course. Even if you thought the probability that chickens are conscious was only 5%, because of the numbers we harm, that's still very bad in expectation. You don't have to value nonhuman animals as much as humans for the argument against their use to hold; you just have to believe that harms done aren't justified by the benefits from particular uses (food, cosmetics, entertainment and research can be considered individually). (It also depends on your views of population ethics, at least when the animals generally have good lives, even if cut short (so probably not in factory farms), e.g. making people happy vs making happy people. See the repugnant conclusion and the asymmetry.)

Whether or not humanity developed from hunting is not relevant now, since the benefits are not the same anymore; the morality of our past hunting is a separate issue. What benefits from your consumption of animal products justify the harms done to animals (and the environment and other humans)? See my response to Radiaz above. It may be excusable to let some people eat animal products because of some need, but are you one of them?

I look forward to the untold stories of Chihiro and Izuru 

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They really suit each other!

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The fact that they all used to be delinquents is actually hilarious. 

Oh boy, that is one scary face you are making there MC-kun...

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The secret is that pandas actually lack protein-digesting enzymes in their normal state. The first batches of meat go through the panda's digestive system practically undigested. They're just stimulants. After a while (no one really knows how long) the panda's body start generating these enzymes and the panda can start digesting the meat. The enzymes also triggers hormonal change in the panda that drives it to stop eating bamboo for a while until starvation conditions hit the panda again and it returns to a bamboo diet. Once the panda returns to full bamboo diet, it also stops producing the enzymes needed to digest meat. It's a neat biological trick that explains how this insanely complex animal with its seemingly stupid living habits can survive in the wild. Kumika's biology probably works the same way. She didn't turn obese because she simply stopped filter-feeding when she started eating. She didn't drop dead because much of that bowl of porridge went back out as-is (sorry, Chihiro) while her body set up the necessary chemicals to process real food.

Another reason for why she doesn't gain a ton of weight is that her metabolism ramped up and she has started using the bathroom multiple times per day, not the once a month she used to as stated in chapter 4.

and going off of panda analogies. Pandas need to eat a lot of bamboo to meet their nutrition requirements. It's likely the same for her. The difference is that instead of having to shove bamboo into her mouth constantly she merely breaths constantly and therefore was constantly eating.