It would cause sufficient emotional harm to their loved ones that I would argue against it. But I wouldn’t condemn as inherently immoral a society that considered it acceptable to feast on the flesh of their departed loved ones. What would be immoral would be to kill people for their flesh.
I rather think you need clarify your own position. Is your position that eating animal flesh is immoral, or that killing animals for their flesh is immoral? Is killing animals for their flesh less or more immoral than letting other animals kill them for their flesh?
What’s morally better, to eat a sheep, or to let a wolf eat a sheep? In both cases, a sheep gets eaten, but the first case pleases the belly of a human, the latter pleases the belly of a wolf. What’s better, to make a human happy or to make a wolf happy?
Also I think you’re confusing emotional bias with cognitive bias. I freely admit I’m emotionally biased in favor of humanity, compared to animals. This will govern my goals and utility functions. It isn’t the same as cognitive bias, thinking the world is other than it actually is.
“Would it be okay to eat them?”
It would cause sufficient emotional harm to their loved ones that I would argue against it. But I wouldn’t condemn as inherently immoral a society that considered it acceptable to feast on the flesh of their departed loved ones. What would be immoral would be to kill people for their flesh.
I rather think you need clarify your own position. Is your position that eating animal flesh is immoral, or that killing animals for their flesh is immoral? Is killing animals for their flesh less or more immoral than letting other animals kill them for their flesh?
What’s morally better, to eat a sheep, or to let a wolf eat a sheep? In both cases, a sheep gets eaten, but the first case pleases the belly of a human, the latter pleases the belly of a wolf. What’s better, to make a human happy or to make a wolf happy?
Also I think you’re confusing emotional bias with cognitive bias. I freely admit I’m emotionally biased in favor of humanity, compared to animals. This will govern my goals and utility functions. It isn’t the same as cognitive bias, thinking the world is other than it actually is.