Cannibalism

"The useless members of society will be used to fuel electric energy by turning a massive turbine. When they die of exhaustion, their bodies will be used as fertilizer and fodder for farming, instead of being eaten." "This proposition is better in the following ways:" "1. We bypass any sort of moral discomfort in consuming a fellow human being 2. Useless members of society are used to produce a resource that the intelligent members can use. 3. Simply eating them provides little resources compared to using them to generate energy and then using their remains to fuel farming." Cons alternative does deal with quite a few issues at the one time but unfortunately I cant see a human driven turbine reaching a speed where significant power could be generated and if we were to allow them to simply just drop dead from exhaustion our scenery would soon end up like the one in the movie "the happening". Also I see no way in which Cannibalism would stand in the way of enslaving the idiots to preserve fossil fuels. On my opponents points. 1. There should be no moral discomfort seeing as we would all be living only to preserve humanitys existence and anything that could be seen to benefit this would be morally right. 2. Food is the most important resource for our survival. 3. Seeing as eating them would in no way stop us from using them to generate energy beforehand, the argument boils down to the best use for the human bodies. To his responces to my 5 points. "1. Yes, it is good to recycle, but the recycling should be as productive as possible. Farming from the fertilized soil of human remains would be much more productive than eating humans outright, as the nutrients would allow for bountiful crop harvest after harvest." I agree that this would be most productive were there not most likely huge meteors hurtling through space in our direction that our time would be better spent preparing for. Eating ourselves would get rid of the need to farm temporarily which would allow us to concentrate more on some of the bigger issues that might be threatening our existence. "2. Working the useless humans to death would have the same result, except that we use them to provide much needed electrical energy. We can eat many things besides humans, why waste a resource like that? Even the msot useless people can be used to push a wheel or crank a gear" There is no reason why we couldnt work the humans to near death before eating them. "3. As said above, my proposition would have the exact same effects except on a greater scale. Less mouths to feed, more food, plus a whole lot more." Our arguments are more or less the exact same besides the fact that you would let them just drop from being over worked while I would have them work and then line up which would create less work meaning less to distract us from the big issues. And even though food is an important resource it would be quite easy to come by after the human population has decreased sufficiently. Depending on whether or not we manage to keep the earth from being hit by a meteor which would render it uninhabitable to us that is. There more we have on it the better!! 4. The energy sources we obtain from working the useless humans to death will reduce our need for fossil fuels and help the atmosphere much more than it would to reduce the number of cows. "Well seeing as cannibalism wouldnt stop us from using useless humans to reduce our use of fossil fuels before their deaths that means my idea would be helping the atmosphere by reducing our use of fossil fuels and getting rid of all the cows while yours would only achieve the first one. "5. Pigs also taste like pork. We can use the extra yield of crop to raise pigs, which produce more meat in a given maturity cycle than humans do. More meat for less food." Pigs wont make their own way to the slaughter house which may distract us from more important work and slow us down in achieving survivalist perfection. Thank you for the debate Kleptin.