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To: LindyBill who wrote (23299)	1/7/2004 6:42:43 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793682

Good question. From a strictly harm principle vantage, cannibalism should be a-ok. But the harm principle only takes into account effects. Other- and self-regarding actions are judged based on their harmfullness and the recipient of harm. But we also take into account INTENT as ethically important, and it is in the intent that cannibalism can be said to be a just limitation of liberty. It is the intention to kill for the sake of killing and consuming another human being that makes the act reprehensible. Not whether or not the consumed agreed to be consumed. Derek