quince has decided I like octopus & other cephalapods best among the mollusks, both for eating and for admiring. I think they are smart, dangerously close to the line of "smart enough and human-like enough that I should protect them."
Tasty is a very convincing motivator
Asked 2 years ago
My choice: Eat them! They are tasty, aren't harvested unsustainably and it isn't any more morally objectionable to eat a squid than a cow.
- kyrandil
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However, I think you've already decided, even if not conciously.
- aletta
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Gah! why do you have to go instilling moral quandries I never had before?!?!
- jtu
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You'll either feel less waffly or more waffly. Wait until you're more sure of what you want to do to do something.
- gugod
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If you're in Japan, Taiwan, or anywhere with plenty amount of seafood, eating octopus is nothing special.
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- lakmiseiru
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Arguably the things I've seen an octopus do I've also seen a horse do (figuring out an unfamiliar lock and teaching other horses how to get out of their stables by demonstration, needing successively more difficult locks to keep them in). Do you have a problem with eating horses (ignoring the "ooh, cute!" problem)?
- ntn
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Wow, hitting either button I'd be hitting it for the wrong reason.
- geoff
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Abstain for a few years on the grounds that they are sufficiently intelligent to create an ethical question. Then, when you go back to eating them, they will be "forbidden" and *oh* so much tastier.
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