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posted by martyb on Saturday March 10 2018, @03:04AM   Printer-friendly
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'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves

What if human meat is grown? Could we overcome our taboo against cannibalism?"
- @RichardDawkins - 6:15 AM - 3 Mar 2018

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/969939225180364805
https://archive.fo/kSmgi

"Lab-grown 'clean' meat could be on sale by end of 2018, says producer"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/clean-meat-lab-grown-available-restaurants-2018-global-warming-greenhouse-emissions-a8236676.html

"'Soylent' Dawkins? Atheist mulls 'taboo against cannibalism' ending as lab-grown meat improves"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/6/richard-dawkins-mulls-taboo-against-cannibalism-en/

and:

https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/richard-dawkins-eating-human-meat-cannibalism-taboo/


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:10AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @02:10AM (#651627) Journal

    Which would all be well and good if there were truly no interaction between them. My God (the real one, not your flying Canaanite genocide fairy), you will go to any length, sacrifice anything, even your own capacity to form rational thoughts, in service of that demon you worship...

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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:01PM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @06:01PM (#651906) Journal

    > You will go to any length, sacrifice anything, even your own capacity to form rational thoughts.

    I am just minimalistic in the assumption.
    Nothing prevents you to reason about god as long as you aware of the set of assumptions you are making.

    > My God (the real one, not your flying Canaanite genocide fairy)
    you say that as if it were a bad thing.

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday March 13 2018, @09:10PM (#652004) Journal

      > I am just minimalistic in the assumption

      The hell you are. The God you believe in is anything but minimalistic or simple, in any of the meanings those terms are given.

      > you say that as if it were a bad thing

      Yeah, I know, you don't have morals or the metaethics with which to support them. That much was obvious from the first time I talked to you. This also means that you can't speak to good or bad, so that sentence was completely hollow. You are epistemically incapable of making value judgments, do you understand that?

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      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday March 14 2018, @08:58PM

        by Bot (3902) on Wednesday March 14 2018, @08:58PM (#652590) Journal

        > The God you believe in is anything but minimalistic or simple
        When you minimize assumptions you end up with a broader spectrum of possibilities, so the God is quite ineffable, by being hypothetical, beyond time, space, cause, effect, numbers and out of reach of judgment by immanent beings.

        But this is needed only when somebody says "if, then" in the domain of god. Besides, usually those arguments break down when we translate them to a virtual world, conceptual, vs its supernatural, the real world who conceived it.

        If you OTOH believe in something (atheism included), I have no arguments against it. You build or derive or apply moral systems and do all the metaethical reasoning you want. My set of belief is irrelevant and anybody else's should, in this context.

        If you're even deeper, on the experience of the divine, your experience can't unfortunately be shared easily and does not provide proof, but this is not your problem,it is everybody else's.

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