I think it is in a similar vein, certainly, but I think it’s different in some ways too. For example, I don’t think most people would accept cannibalism even if the people (victims? food?) led very happy lives, perhaps like a system where people were pampered in spas all day before being killed for food. But the logical extension of Hanson’s argument is that this would be a great system. Assuming that there was a remote economic demand for human meat, which, thankfully, there isn’t.
Also, I think cannibalism engages people’s sense of moral intuition much moreso than simply having a lot of marginally happy people does.
I think it is in a similar vein, certainly, but I think it’s different in some ways too. For example, I don’t think most people would accept cannibalism even if the people (victims? food?) led very happy lives, perhaps like a system where people were pampered in spas all day before being killed for food. But the logical extension of Hanson’s argument is that this would be a great system. Assuming that there was a remote economic demand for human meat, which, thankfully, there isn’t.
Also, I think cannibalism engages people’s sense of moral intuition much moreso than simply having a lot of marginally happy people does.