The pig that wants to be eaten.

This interests me though. I'm not all too familiar with Islam, I'll admit. What is it that makes pig haraam in Islam?
Would the intelligence or the feeling that you would ascribe to it if it was speaking to you have any effect on this? Would it go from being haraam for one reason to being haraam for another (as I know you don't eat other human beings)?
Curiosity more than anything else, it's another perspective.

Loool you're such an SJW



In middle eastern culture even before Islam existed, pigs were looked down on, why do you think Judaism forbids eating pork and why in the story where Jesus exorcises the man from Gadara the demons go into pigs.

No pigs on earth really want to be eaten. That experiment can't be possible in the real world.

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No pigs on earth really want to be eaten. That experiment can't be possible in the real world.

Have you read the book of the same name? It's got a bunch of interesting thought experiments etc., great for a light read.

I think if you're not currently a vegetarian - i.e. you currently eat pigs that presumably don't want to be eaten - this is a fairly straightforward one.

If you are vegetarian, vegan etc. it's more interesting. If you agree that right and wrong are some functions of suffering and well-being, I guess you've got to think about whether the pig is fully informed about being eaten and fully comprehends - in its 'right mind', whatever that means - what constitutes being eaten.

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What if the pig also had a hand and just slit it's own throat right in front of you after declaring it wants to be eaten?

This interests me though. I'm not all too familiar with Islam, I'll admit. What is it that makes pig haraam in Islam?
Would the intelligence or the feeling that you would ascribe to it if it was speaking to you have any effect on this? Would it go from being haraam for one reason to being haraam for another (as I know you don't eat other human beings)?
Curiosity more than anything else, it's another perspective.

We simply do not eat pork because the Quran prohibits us:

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah.”

As we believe the Quran is the direct word of God, we do not necessarily question why we are not supposed to eat pork - Allah orders us to do something so we obey. Due to this, eating pig will always remain forbidden; if one is starving and no other food is available, forbidden foods like pork become permissble, but that is only in a life or death situation.
Various reasons have been proposed as to why Allah forbade it, but these are all speculative e.g. the meat from pigs is full of various toxins, pigs are unclean and eat their waste etc, but it doesn't matter too much as to why

Imagine this. You're wondering what you want to have for your dinner, and a genetically modified or selectively bred pig walks up to you and tells you that you should eat it for dinner. In fact, not only should you, the pig actively wants you to. Do you eat the pig?
(This is very similar in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a part of the Hitchhiker's Guide series - there is is a cow like creature offering the best cuts of steak).

Two lines of thought come out of this thought experiment as I look at it. The pig wants you to eat it, so really you'd be doing it a disservice by not eating it. Even if you've spent years as a vegetarian for moral reasons, does the pig's attitude of wanting to be eaten override what you think is right concerning if you should eat it's bacon?
However, as Arthur Dent thought in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, if the animal is smart enough to be able to communicate that it wants to be eaten, does this somehow put it into a category of 'too intelligent for us to eat' - in other words, what makes this pig then morally different to a human that would allow you to eat that pig, but send a human that wanted to be eaten to see a psychiatrist?

What would your response be to a pig that wanted to be eaten?

We simply do not eat pork because the Quran prohibits us:

"Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah.”

As we believe the Quran is the direct word of God, we do not necessarily question why we are not supposed to eat pork - Allah orders us to do something so we obey. Due to this, eating pig will always remain forbidden; if one is starving and no other food is available, forbidden foods like pork become permissble, but that is only in a life or death situation.
Various reasons have been proposed as to why Allah forbade it, but these are all speculative e.g. the meat from pigs is full of various toxins, pigs are unclean and eat their waste etc, but it doesn't matter too much as to why

Pigs on earth also can't communicate to you in human language that they want to be eaten.
It's a thought experiment - you just think about it.

lol. But they can talk to people. They use body language. No animals on this planet want to die.

What if the pig also had a hand and just slit it's own throat right in front of you after declaring it wants to be eaten?

Well, some humans do.

Also, its a thought experiment. Would you believe the pig? Would you think the pig were mentally ill?