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Originally Posted by LoganSnake
I don't get the tradition of making a person who is about to die a great meal. You're gonna die, so why stuff your stomach with food? Waste of ingredients.
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Lasereth just jokingly suggested that spending money on food (in the Weekly Costs thread) was a waste because it all goes into the toilet. Obvious statement being obvious aside, I was flabbergasted and I'm the guy that's been eating yellow box Cheerios two meals a day for the last three years.
Don't wanna be a 1st grade health/science teacher but we eat certain foods because they keep us alive and because our brains tells us that they taste good. Food is both a necessary fuel and enjoyable experience. The waste byproducts we produce from this activity are hardly the thing to concentrate on in the "Why food?" debate either in our daily lives or right before you take that cold needle to Never-Neverland. It's all about the granting of a final pleasurable experience equating to some sort of human dignity. It's that whole "treat others fairly" thing. I could even go as low as to squeeze out some pop psych bullshit about Maslow's Pyramid (thanks Baraka) here, too. "If we feed the body, it works to comfort the soul." *wank wank* I apologize.
I suppose we could just herd starving death row inmates into a packed football stadium and blast them into beef stew with M2 machine guns. That'd the practical thing to do, wouldn't it? Why waste food on dead men? And why do they have clothes? Hell, why waste all that precious time and money on legal appeals? Oh yeah... we tell ourselves we're not monsters. Food is an easy out. Some school of ethics uses it as a neutralization mechanism.