I meant I parsed fubarobfusco’s comment differently to you, (“they want to be cannibals, therefore it’s … OK to eat them? Somehow?”), because I just assumed that obviously you should save the poor octopi (i.e. it would “bother” you in the sense of moral anguish, not “betcha didn’t think of this!”)
It wasn’t, your first parse would be a correct moral implication. The Babyeaters must be stopped from eating themselves.
… whoops.
I meant I parsed fubarobfusco’s comment differently to you, (“they want to be cannibals, therefore it’s … OK to eat them? Somehow?”), because I just assumed that obviously you should save the poor octopi (i.e. it would “bother” you in the sense of moral anguish, not “betcha didn’t think of this!”)