Yes, I probably would, including dog if it tasted nice. I think if you eat animals you eat animals don't you?
I don't think that's a commonly held view, hence dog meat being illegal.
In the UK, maybe, but it’s an everyday food in several Asian countries. Many millions of people in India must be horrified at us in the West routinely eating cows.
The cruelty of the dark ages and mediaeval periods
I often wonder how we went through various stages of history. How did so many people act and think so awfully when now it would be inconceivable
I'm not convinced it’s really all that different now. We just have so many more subtle and ‘sophisticated’ – technological, legal and financial, among others - ways of showing our displeasure or outright hatred of people and inflicting horrendous pain or misery on them rather than only physical pain. Even just concentrating on physical killing though, is a bow and arrow used to kill an individual by piercing their heart inherently far more cruel than an atomic bomb dropped on an entire city, whatever the justifications?
I've thought this a lot, though, the way we trivialise or even laugh at the most abhorrent acts of centuries ago. I bought a bathroom trivia book which contains a lot of these historical facts intended to let you have a chuckle whilst you’re doing a poo (I didn't know about the cruelty 'fun facts' when I bought it, I skimmed through and only saw the ones about strange cultural customs). One that stays with me is about whichever queen it was who would regularly have a bath in young virgins’ blood, believing it to be somehow rejuvenating. Hilarious and wacky, no? Can you imagine being a terrified 13yo girl (or her parent), hearing a knock at the door and being told by a bunch of men that you’d been selected to be taken away right now to be killed and have your blood drained out of you for some evil woman to bathe in? I love a good laugh as much as anybody, but I cannot for the life of me find anything remotely amusing in that. Real, actual people living a few hundred years ago were still basically the same as us – why would the passage of a few centuries magically make utter barbarism morph into unbridled hilarity?
I suspect all the people who found poo smell “nice” died as a result of eating it and only the “poo smells bad” folk survived.
Elephants!
Yes! How can something so enormous and powerful be so very cute?!
Money.
We stress over it and say people have too much and some not enough but it's not even real is it?
I was going to say the same thing. Coins/cash/notes/tangible currency I completely understand, as it’s basically a way of swapping your time and skills with somebody whose time and skills may be needed by somebody else but not you at that time.
Fractional Reserve banking and digital money, though, is essentially a great big con based on widespread trust (many would say deceit). A very few select organisations with ostensibly an enormous amount of money are allowed to lend it to governments, smaller companies and individuals; but instead of passing over the money they already have, they simply create a debt out of nothing and that debt is then considered actual money. For which people have to labour for decades to pay back much more than something that they borrowed, which didn't even exist until the point that they borrowed it – and still doesn't really exist, except as numbers on a computer screen.
clothes.what made people want to cover parts of their bodies when no other mammals or anything at all does.fashion.decency?protection?warmth and then evolving from that?
And of all that, why does the frivolous fashion aspect so frequently trump the much more understandable warmth and decency aspects? Full-body clothes designed to cover everything EXCEPT the private parts (actual clothes to wear outdoors in public - not just for the bedroom). In certain historical periods, it was considered the expected norm that women would wear full, floor-length dresses whenever in public, but which only started under the bust. Presumably, to show a hint of ankle would have been scandalous but just sitting there with your norks completely out and uncovered was standard.
Mind, though, they obviously had different societal norms in what they found acceptable and attractive then. Every single time I go to a NT stately home, I'm astounded by how very butch the women look and how extremely feminine the men look, by today’s standards. You can often only tell for sure which sex they are by the clothes they're wearing.