Burney, your analogy between our treatment of animals and prostitution seems flawed

[eastgermanautos]

It wasn't an analogy, it was a benchmark of how, as a species, we are disinclined to allow questions of ethics to dominate our need to satiate our natural desires for pleasure. The point is that, after 10,000 years of civilisation, if we have only come that far on the commoditisation of human beings, how much further away do you think a worldwide moratorium on the commoditisation of animals is?

This is, in fact, completely wrong, and I expect you know it. The Ancient Greeks were all about the ethics of food choices. Epicureans much? And of course old Pythagoras, with his religion of farting.

[Burney]

This is, in fact, completely wrong, and I expect you know it. The Ancient Greeks were all about the ethics of food choices. Epicureans much? And of course old Pythagoras, with his religion of farting.

You're confusing philosophy and reality, I fear.

[eastgermanautos]

You're confusing philosophy and reality, I fear.

Ethics. Aristotle trotted out a work called The Nichomachean Ethics. Not read it, don't plan to.