Why is it more moral to eat a pig than it is to eat a retarded human with the

Why is it more moral to eat a pig than it is to eat a retarded human with the

Why is it more moral to eat a pig than it is to eat a retarded human with the intelligence of a pig? What can account for our revulsion at one and not the other aside from the fact that one would-be morsel looks like us and the other doesn't? Let us assume that the retarded human in question has no friends / family who would be traumatized by his being eaten.

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