English Jam(Oct.7.2012)

Before going to the first topic, we talked about "Why do people become vegetarians?"

There are lots of reasons, psychologically or religiously, to become vegetarians.

Typical ones are when one....

1. Doesn't want to kill(and eat) "living things".
2. Wants to be "healthy".
3. Wants to stay skinny.
   4.Wants to save some money.

And, we came up with one more initiative...

Then, we discussed kind of an extreme option that we have. If one doesn't want to murder and eat other living things, such as cows, pigs, or chickens, what about our species, HUMAN BEINGS?

Soylent Green is a movie. Basically, the story takes place in a world that food is scarce because of an extreme population increase. So, poeple live on "Soylent Green"(some kind of food, made of HUMAN BEINGS).

Soylent Green(1973) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVpN312hYgU

The fact that many of us feel WRONG when it comes to cannibalism, is undeniable. Why, though?

In the discussion, there were some opinions such as...

"If we were to eat human, we gotta murder other persons. That's just wrong."

"As we all know, we(humans) can feel pain when hurt. we also have an ability to think."

This is a good point.

Being vegetarian makes us "healthy". But, what does "healthy" mean, anyway?

For us, being healthy, of course, is about our physical conditions. That is not the only condition of "healthy", though.

We also got to be mentally "healthy".

And, mentally or physically, our states of being "healthy" are, more or less, different from each of us.

It may not be related to this topic. But, it might have something to do with SMOKING, also.

I mean many people today say that smoking cigarette isn't good because it's not "healthy" for yourself and even for people close to you.

That's true. Isn't it getting too much, though? sometimes, what anti-smokers say sounds like they are forcing smokers to follow their criterion. As if smoking is no longer a choice for any of us.