Scanty said:
I took nambit's post as meaning - what would be the rules as to eating animals/humans if we were in a state of living where no social/ethical structure arose. (a hypothetical situation, in other words).
If you're talking about what would happen after a group of humans sprang into existance, realistically, then yeah obviously social norms would develop.
Yeah, that's what i meant... a hypothetical situation (ie an intellectual wank).
and yes, social norms would develop... but without all that background with eating animals, would these hypothetical humans decide that eating animals was a bad idea?
Personally I reckon there's a good chance that everyone would be tree-hugging hippies in that situation... the thought of eating animals would be rather repulsive... but i don't really have a good argument for that, it's just the gut feeling I have that it's kinda weird to eat meat, but i still do it because i rather like the stuff... as someone said, if i'd never eaten it i doubt i'd feel any urge to do so.