Originally Posted by
coqauvin
Humans are the odd species out in that we actively drink breast milk past the weaning stage anyways. I mean, if you're going by a natural standard, drinking milk after you started eating solid foods is regressive, regardless of whether it's your mother's milk or a cow's (EVEN IF THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME). So this idea that 'it's gross because it's a family member's milk' seems a little contrived in that light - it's gross because it's milk, period.
Ok, so you're saying on the scale of moral relativism that lion's cannabalism of infants is ok, because it's 'natural', and because it's a widespread pracice, and on these same grounds drinking human breastmilk is abnormal? There are plenty of cultures that see us (I suppose European influenced - europe and the americas, mostly) as being regressive because our diet relies on milk so much. To them, the idea of consuming milk, especially animal milk, is abnormal and strange. Probably because they don't do that as a part of their society on a regular basis, and, I suppose, because it's natural not to.
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