Can you eat pig post rejection?
Reply #13 - August 26, 2015, 01:32 AM
And my answer is yes, I don't mind pork which is a euphemistic pig having evolved via killing it, in the same way beef is the postmortem name for cow meat. If I remember correctly, it was the late Christopher Hitchens who said that a human flesh tastes very similar to pork and that this might explain the religious injunction against eating it. I personally wouldn't know if this was true because I've never knowingly eaten a human being, nor do I intend to although it did strike me as odd after the 'Horsemeat Scandal' in Britain that the verification method used was randomised DNA testing. I shudder when I think about this sort of stuff because if it were horsemeat, why not mules too? If mules, what stops it being donkeys also?
Incidentally, the recent movie, Life of Pi (2012), has as its secondary character a tiger called Richard Parker, which is a well-known name in case law circles, for having presented the first example of two people confessing to have eaten a dying human being after their shipwreck and being adrift at sea for a very long time: A.C. Hutchinson's book, Is Eating People Wrong?, is a good read on the developmental, dynamic nature of the common law. Of course, the same came into the minds of Chilean miners and even talked about it vis-a-vis a particular weakened person among them. These examples and others seem to make me believe that between us and savagery, as the famous adage goes — particularly after Hurricane Katrina's scenes of looting — is only three meals. If the provision of your fourth meal is unknown and uncertain to you, you would resort to so euphemistically called 'extreme measures' i.e. the survival of the fittest and to hell with the neat difference between meum and tuum -- mine and thine. This basic fact sharply defines a functioning government, whichever way I look at it, as fundamentally commanding the fear of the largest number of people. Not their respect, admiration or vote.
I'm, however, still unable to touch dogs after rejection, as you say, and the very presence of a dog around makes me nervous. Maybe this has something to do with my aversion to Oriental food.
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