Q&A: Human Flesh, Sacrifices, and the Use of Animals
Human Flesh, Sacrifices, and the Use of Animals
Question
Hello.
A. If people kill and eat animals, why not kill and eat human flesh in the name of logical consistency? What superiority does man have over beast? If you eat a cow, then you should eat a human being. The analogy between them is clear. And if killing a human being, who is an animal, is bad, then killing another animal is bad.
B. Why don’t people enslave human beings for milk and forced impregnation and offspring and other uses? If it is done to animals, then it should also be done to humans, in the name of consistency as above.
C. Why do people pray for and accept that there will be animal sacrifices in the Temple? Let them pray for and accept that there will be human sacrifices, in the name of consistency. And if that is God’s will, then this too is His will. Both are His creatures.
Answer
Nonsensical questions.
In the past, the Holy One, blessed be He, expressed His will through animal sacrifices, not human ones. The question is whether this will continue in the future. I assume and hope not. But that is why I added that if it turns out that I was mistaken and yes, then we will do His will.
And one who compares an animal to a human being is merely revealing his own defect.
As usual, I didn’t get an answer. Nonsense, yes. And I notice that you’re quite a babbler yourself.
A. If He expressed His will that way, and it also turns out that this is His will, then He is an evil god.
B. Likewise, the same puzzlement about human nature—why did He create it this way?
C. I am making an analogy, consistently. So there is obviously no connection at all to that line about “revealing one’s own defect.”