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The Cultural Programming of Ethical Intuitions
Cannibalism seems like it's maybe potentially culturally over-ridible right? Yes yeah I mean are there that many societies that engage in cannibalism? I suppose maybe you could. It was in an evolutionary environment where food is sufficiently scarce that it's more important to get the food from eating people than it is to avoid the diseases they'll pass to you. One of the best examples of the cultural programming of like our ethical intuitions is like the idea of eating dogs which people in the U.S. would never even think about if they ate their dog.