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Edited by CruxPhantasmal, 14 November 2017 - 04:38 PM.
Where do you Draw the Line?
Started by IlikeLolis, Sep 25 2015 09:14 PM
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Posted 14 November 2017 - 04:33 PM
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Eating between the lines can be pretty sketchy. I figure it by the level of cognition a particular creature has. If it is self-aware and/or can think for itself, I would be pretty hard pressed into eating them. That being said, vegetable monsters I would have no problems eating, as long as they are closer to being a vegetable than they are at being intelligent. Unless I was starving, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I ate a creature that could communicate or rationalize. As for being like a human, I'm not really all that anthropocentric, as there are plenty of creatures with a relative sense of agency and intelligence.
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Posted 15 November 2017 - 12:01 AM
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What about polymorphed? If a person is turned into an animal, would eating them Circe-style be ok? Or the other way around, like in the most recent chapter, if a monster transforms into a human are they no longer fair game?
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 06:52 PM
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They just had a harpy egg omelette a bit ago, and I'm unsure on how to feel about that. Might not have been fertilized, but then again if humans laid eggs would you be willing to eat even an unfertilized one? Harpies are also more animal than human, they can't talk. They look like humans, but if they were drawing the line at things looking human then eating that pumpkin a few chapters back would've been crossing a line too.
Personally I didn't mind, but for how readily they brushed it off, that one was really pushing the issue.
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Posted 16 December 2017 - 12:50 PM
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How about centaurs. Would you eat the humanoid top part, or just the bottom beast part, if any at all?
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Posted 08 January 2018 - 12:37 AM
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As it turned out, the polymorph was more of an illusion perpetrated by a monster, but I don't know exactly how that illusion manifested itself in such a situation where there are multiple people with apparent personalities. I think eating them would be more like a tanuki-style as they were more a product of their minds than anything. If a person turned into an animal, unless you didnt know beforehand that an animal that you killed was actually a polymorph, it would not be excused. A polymorphed animal is still a being with intelligence and self-awareness.
Vegans have the (justifiable) excuse that eggs are still eggs, like from a chicken, so eating them is unethical and reinforces a life of animal slavery. However, it can also be argued that hens will lay eggs regardless and eating unfertilized ones are okay. In this way, if a human laid an unfertilized egg, it would be okay to eat it. If not, what would you do, throw it out? In this circumstance, neither the characters nor the readers knew if the harpy egg was fertilized or not, so it is sketchy. It may be fine though.
Regarding centaurs, they are very much intelligent creatures with self-awareness, so it wouldn't be ethical to eat any bit of it. Unless, of course, it was also part bird and laid eggs.
Vegans have the (justifiable) excuse that eggs are still eggs, like from a chicken, so eating them is unethical and reinforces a life of animal slavery. However, it can also be argued that hens will lay eggs regardless and eating unfertilized ones are okay. In this way, if a human laid an unfertilized egg, it would be okay to eat it. If not, what would you do, throw it out? In this circumstance, neither the characters nor the readers knew if the harpy egg was fertilized or not, so it is sketchy. It may be fine though.
Regarding centaurs, they are very much intelligent creatures with self-awareness, so it wouldn't be ethical to eat any bit of it. Unless, of course, it was also part bird and laid eggs.
