Most people who are against eating human children would also be against eating human children grown in such a way as to not have brains. Yet clearly, few of the ethical arguments apply to eating human children without brains. So the default isn’t “ethical behavior”, it’s “some arbitrary set of rules that may happen to include ethical behavior at times”.
Most people who are against eating human children would also be against eating human children grown in such a way as to not have brains. Yet clearly, few of the ethical arguments apply to eating human children without brains. So the default isn’t “ethical behavior”, it’s “some arbitrary set of rules that may happen to include ethical behavior at times”.