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# that's disgusting.
in all ways.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:14, archived)
# The only reason I could stomach it
was when I realised that the tentacles weren't connected to a brain anymore,
so there wasn't any unnecessary suffering.

Also, octopus is usually chopped up, so it wasn't a bizarre or circuitous way of killing it.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:20, archived)
# all meat-eating squicks me out.
but eating obviously intelligent animals also strikes me as hubris.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:30, archived)
# Cephalopods occupy more biomass than primates. They're the dominant species.
I won't eat dolphins, whales, great apes, elephants etc, but I'm more than happy to chow down on some squid or some octopus.

Anyways, they usually only live for a few months, so they don't get to utilise their intelligence past basic survival.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:36, archived)
# that's what they allow you to think.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:48, archived)
# all the while plotting weird new sexual positions.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:54, archived)
# I'm allowed to think lots of things.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:01, archived)
# that's what you think.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:11, archived)
# You've got me there.
(, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:32, archived)