If your criterion for the moral permissibility
> of killing and eating other animals is one
> of intelligence, then wouldn't Albert Einstein
> have had the moral right to eat just about
> anyone on this list, if he was into cannibalism?
>
But wasn't he obviously devoid of basic social and life skills? Why should we not all have gotten a bite of him instead?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."