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Fairly recently, I came upon the following passage in a review of a book by Colin M. Turnbull, called The Mountain People:
A child dumped on the ground is seized and eaten by a leopard. The mother is delighted; for not only does she no longer have to carry the child about and feed it, but it follows that there is likely to be a gorged leopard near by, a sleepy animal which can easily be killed and eaten. An old woman who has been abandoned falls down the mountainside because she is blind, so a crowd gathers to laugh at the spectacle of her distress. A man about to die of gunshot wounds makes a last request for tea. As he feebly raises it to his lips, it is snatched from him by his sister, who runs away delighted. A child develops intestinal obstruction; so his father calls in the neighbours to enjoy the joke of his distended belly.
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Cherry, C. (1975). Agreement, Objectivity and the Sentiment of Humanity in Morals. In: Peters, R.S. (eds) Nature and Conduct. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02568-8_5
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