Friday, November 4, 2011
The Answer is Pork
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The point is supposed to be that it's wrong to eat pork. What I take away from this clever PETA ad is that it would be OK to eat cat in some situations. Like if you're offered some in China and don't want to hurt your host's feelings. Risking the discovery that Mittens over rice is just too darn tasty.
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8 comments:
If one's host is that clueless about customs in the rest of the world, feelings deserve to be hurt.
"Custom," in the sense of "habit," isn't much of a reason for doing or not doing anything.
I did not mean custom in the sense of habit.
Close, though. "A set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted rules, norms, standards or criteria."
I draw the line at traffic regulations.
IOW, if one is going to be libertarian-ish, making up one's own mind about stuff like this would be a good place to start.
Who wants to be libertarian-ish? Too many absolute ideas divorced from context to my taste.
The importance of custom (as opposed to laws and even logic) can't be understated.
Imagine seeing someone walking down the street chewing on a cat thigh.. Don't tell me that you can be talked out of being disgusted.
If eating pigs is OK, eating cats and dogs is OK. No way you can get around that.
Custom as you're describing it sounds like habit and peer pressure raised to the level of a taboo. And also, whose customs? Yours or the Chinese? The customs of the Deep South circa 1953? Just a way of clinging to biases you can't actually defend, IYAM.
I'm in a good mood and making this stuff up as I go along. In case you had't noticed.
We vegetarians do our best to avoid eating either.
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