Deep Philosophical & Moral Questions Suppose you could go back in time and trace out the evolution of Homo sapiens and primates.
Do you expect there to be a cutoff that partitions the beings that come before?
In addition, after this discontinuity into qualitatively different categories such that you would eat and enslave the former but not the latter?
Such questions are moral in nature.
Morals are either justifications for evolutionary strategy or based on non utilitarian strategy derived from metaphysical notions.
In philosophy, ethical dilemmas, also called ethical paradoxes or moral dilemmas, are situations in which an agent stands under two conflicting moral requirements, none of which overrides the other.
Moreover, a closely related definition characterizes ethical dilemmas as situations in which every available choice is wrong.
As a civilization, the number of people who would say:
“there is no line, i refuse to eat any” will asymptomatically reach 100%.
It’s just not a good idea to eat genetically similar organisms because you run a higher risk of contracting their diseases.
Lastly, the leading theory about HIV is that it jumped from an ape onto a hunter. As a result, of the hunter who tried to mate with the ape. However, the hunter then ate it.
