[Mr. Silverback]

Armin certainly didn't hurt his victim. The guy was unconscious (intentional cough syrup overdose) and was stabbed right in the ol' ticker.

So hey, consenting adults, who cares, right?

[Mr. Silverback]

BreakPoint/Chuck Colson Ping!

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[Unam Sanctam]

Isn't cannibalism something like slavery, where the consenting adult paradigm should not hold?

[mitchbert]

their slightly odd relationship?

Um, slightly odd? I'd go a little further than that, dude.

[Blood of Tyrants]

When you go down the slippery slope of "assisted suicide", this is what you get.

[monday]

"So hey, consenting adults, who cares, right?"

Who said Brandes consented to be eaten? The cannibal?

Unless Armin has video tape showing Brandes stating his wish to be eaten and a couple of psychiatrists who had examined Brandes and found him to be of sound mind, what Armin says Brandes wanted shouldn't matter.

If he is believed, then every murderer could claim his victim wanted to be killed.

[wildbill]

This method sounds fictitious to me. If the guy was really into pain, wouldn't he have wanted to experience the ecstasy of at least watching a few choice morsels carved off and served with a properly decanted vintage red wine?

How do we know that wasn't the case--and that at some point he might have said, "Gott in himmel, I've made a mistake. No more for me, thanks."

We're supposed to rely on the cannibal's word?

I've never understood it before, but perhaps suicide does indicate extreme mental illness and that's what elevates the injury of oneself to a crime.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping + Where eliminating moral absolutes will take us.

(Actually it will take us evern further into the abyss.)

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[He Rides A White Horse]

The idea today is that we’re autonomous—we’re free to do whatever we want, as long as we don’t hurt somebody else.

This concept is espoused by our libertarian friends; sooner or later, life offers up a situation that will put such a doctrine to the test.

[He Rides A White Horse]

There are no formulas that will enable us to abandon moral judgement in certain areas..........not everything can be boiled down to a legalistic idea.

[boris]

I'll have the Chili con Hombre and the Lady Fingers, please.