Kalefa Sanneh

And that your answer would include at least one recipe.

Although there's a way of thinking about that case in a consent-based framework, right?

You can think about that and say, like, well, this other person, it wasn't truly informed consent.

That's not something one can consent to if one is in one's right mind.

Therefore, that consent is not valid.

Therefore, we're going to prosecute it as murder.

That's separate from the question of, did he do something extra wrong?

beyond committing murder if we think it was murder, right?

Like, would the sentence be the same if he had met up with this guy, made this agreement to kill him and eat him, and killed him, and then not eaten him?

Do you think it would have been the same?

Yeah.

To me, that's the crime, right, is the actual killing.

Right.

And what happens later, you know...

We have laws about desecrating a corpse or something, and there are those other laws, but, you know, mainly to the extent which it's outrageous, the murder is the outrage, even though the other part, the cannibal part, is what makes us all think about it and the reason we know about it.

Right.

Yeah.

But it's not obvious to me that that revulsion that most of us have at the idea of cannibalism

It's not obvious to me that that's wrong, right?

Like, that might be a moral intuition we should learn from and respect.