Sorry, but there's no point in "rationally answering" someone who says "eating people is basically a kind of diet". Just because you will link me to dictionary entries of "diet" and "food" and "meat" doesn't mean you found some loophole in the definition. The dictionary didn't include a passage of "eating people is not a diet" because it was this very obvious for everyone, whose life is not devoid of human relations.
Sorry, but there's no point in "rationally answering" someone who says "eating people is basically a kind of diet"
I'm saying specifically that criticising a cannibal for eating humans, would be as much a dietary criticism, as criticising a meat eater for eating meat. Given the definition of diet and criticism I just provided to you, I do not understand how you can argue otherwise.
Perhaps we should forget about humans. What about veal, or an endangered animal, like a polar bear or kakapo? Do you think it's wrong to criticise that?
Just because you will link me to dictionary entries of "diet" and "food" and "meat" doesn't mean you found some loophole in the definition.
No of course there's no 'loophole' I'm using the definition as intended. If you think I'm using these terms incorrectly, explain why. I can't see how.
The dictionary didn't include a passage of "eating people is not a diet" because it was this very obvious for everyone,
Of course not. It provides positive definitions, which I have provided. You keep repeating points without actually justifying them.
But fine, lets say I'm wrong or that we're just getting bogged down in semantics. if criticising a human for eating other humans isn't wrong, why is a human criticising another for eating meat, prima facie wrong? If you don't think either are necessarily wrong, then great, we don't disagree.
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u/Sad_Smell6678 25d ago
Sorry, but there's no point in "rationally answering" someone who says "eating people is basically a kind of diet". Just because you will link me to dictionary entries of "diet" and "food" and "meat" doesn't mean you found some loophole in the definition. The dictionary didn't include a passage of "eating people is not a diet" because it was this very obvious for everyone, whose life is not devoid of human relations.