An ethical natural hygienist

[Guest guest]

Is there such a category of person as

an " ethical natural hygienist " ?

 

I ask this because, as nearly all of us probably

know, there are ethical vegetarians who believe,

not only that it is wrong for them to eat animals,

and perhaps even animal products (ethical vegans),

but also wrong for others to do the same, since

they believe in objectivity in ethical issues -

that the moral reasons for their being vegetarian

or vegan are objective reasons, not merely grounded

in personal preferences.

 

There are also natural hygienists, often dietary vegans

who believe that their personal health choices result

from objective relations that their bodies have with

the world, but with respect to the outcomes that their

food choices have on their own bodies.

 

Both positions believe in physical objectivity,

and that their judgments about the physical

state of affairs that precedes their food choices

and that result from their food choices make

each food choice objectively significant,

and the ethical vegetarian would also argue that

there are objective ethical qualities to their

moral decisions about whether or not they

affect others.

 

I wonder whether or not there are " ethical natural hygienists " who

hold that it is objectively WRONG for them or others to combine

food so that their bodies suffer, or so that they get sick from eating

wrong amounts of the wrong foods in the wrong combinations.

 

Whatcha all think, eh?

 

msc