{"id":306,"date":"2005-04-15T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/04\/15\/cannibalism-by-consent\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T12:47:03","slug":"cannibalism-by-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200504\/cannibalism-by-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalism by Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to jump into the fray on <a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/bloggers-beef.html\">Amit Varma&#8217;s<\/a>  question for some time. The question in question is whether a man who eats another man with the latter&#8217;s consent should be prosecuted.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/quizfan.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/illiberal-act.html\">Arun Simha<\/a> gives his answer as yes, but I find the reasons he gives incoherent. He argues that we should punish the man because his act violates our universal human values. He doesn&#8217;t mention which value is violated, but presumably the value is that one human being may not kill another, regardless of whether the &#8220;victim&#8221; gave his consent to getting killed or not. Which is why the act is <i>inherently<\/i> &#8220;amoral&#8221; (I think he meant immoral) and criminal. <\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s incoherent about this? Nothing so far,  but later on in the comments he says that he favours the <i>utilitarian<\/i> approach and prefers to solve issues using a case-by-case approach. But Arun, you <i>did not <\/i> approach this particular case on a utilitarian basis. You simply referred back to first principles &#8211; the principle in this case being that <i>you<\/i> put a higher value on human being&#8217;s life over his own desires. Those principles are different from mine, but they <i>are<\/i> principles nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to make this a long post, so I will just lob the ball back into Arun&#8217;s court and wait for his response before going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to jump into the fray on Amit Varma&#8217;s question for some time. The question in question is whether a man who eats another man with the latter&#8217;s consent should be prosecuted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}