All sex isn’t equal thouqh. Some kinds are safer and better than others - physically, emotionally, socially, mentally, and spiritually.
Just because I CAN eat a porcupine doesn’t make it smart. And if it’s qoinq to hurt another person in the lonq run, it’s not morally neutral for me to serve them porcupine.
But is this not in the domain of personal preference?
Just because I CAN eat a porcupine doesn’t make it smart. And if it’s qoinq to hurt another person in the lonq run, it’s not morally neutral for me to serve them porcupine.
Who do you know who actually eats porcupine or advocates eating porcupine? I know of no one.
Hmm, let's take a less hysterical example, shall we?
Blowfish, shark fin, bird's nest, chocolate covered ants... aha.
I had a girlfriend in college who once served me uncooked, black, salt cured fish eggs. She took them out of the tin can and put them on a cracker for me. It reminded me of salmon egg fish bait more than anything else in my then-limited experience. She said it was a delicacy. Of course, I refused to eat the stuff since it was obviously risky.
(Actually, I tried it and it was great. The food was, of course, caviar. It was my first time with caviar and the girl helped me break my caviar virginity! I confess I actually enjoyed losing my caviar virginity!)
Anyway, however, I would understand and totally support you if we ever met socially and I tried to serve you uncooked, black, salt cured fish eggs (the horror? the horror?) that smelled like salmon egg fish bait and you refused based on perceived risk, or lack of gustatory appeal, or repulsive appearance, or any other personal perogative. I would certainly never want to be associated with you losing your caviar virginity if you did not consent. That would of course be totally wrong! (Even if caviar is great stuff! I would fully support your right to eat the food of your choice (and to refrain from eating foods not of your choice) so long as it does not imfringe upon my right to eat the food of my choice. And you know what? I would not even dare lecture you on the benefits of eating caviar, or porcupine. I would kindly thank you if you and folks like you returned the favor and would refrain from imposing upon me on which foods are better than other foods. Except for pork. It is of cloven hoof! So you won't need to lecture me in the first place.)
Back to porcupines, if someone really wants to eat them, they can, and possibly suffer the consequences. But according to the cycle of life (with a dash of Darwin, presuming for the moment that hyperliteralist creationism is best addressed in a different thread) that is OK with me in the sense that I will not waste my time lecturing others on the evils of eating raw whole porcupine. Nor will I lecture anyone on the evils of peeing off a high voltage tower. From the Darwinian perspective, these types of problems tend to take care of themselves. Would you not agree? Cycle of life and all that...
If at some future date in my old age I have a heart attack in some nasty(*) group sex orgy, should I be so "caught up in the moment" (and I will say for the record that I do not expect to be so "caught up in the moment"), you are hereby authorized by me to deliver an eulogy at my funeral on the clear and present dangers of getting "caught up in the moment" with some nasty group sex, using the circumstances my demise as an example.
Win-win!
:-)
(*) Is sex dirty? Only when it is done right. -- Woody Allen