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A Boring Dystopia
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The restaurant at the end of the universe has genetically engineered animals that want to be eaten. I don’t know if that is consent but it’s definitely unethical. Imagine genetically engineering woman to want to sleep with you. Creepy af.
The Dish of the Day is engineered not only to want to be eaten, but also to be intelligent enough to express informed, non-coerced consent. It can speak, it can understand the concept of mortality, it knows exactly how it will be cooked and which parts of its body will be used for which items on the menu. It has a complete understanding of the situation and is very happy to be eaten. If you don't want to eat it, it will be disappointed. Nothing bad will happen to it if it does not agree to be eaten, it wants to be eaten of its own free will.
It's an ideal ethical situation. The Dish of the Day hasn't been coerced, abused, tricked, or taken advantage of. The only room for ethical objection is in the breeding process, but I'm inclined to trust that the breeding was more or less ethical, given the great ethics of the parts we actually see. That's inductive reasoning, but it's the best reasoning we have on that process.