[Shandrax]

This whole question is about values.

What is the value of a human hand and what is the value of a cat?

The next problem has something to do with "don't do to others what you don't want to be done to you".

We don't want to chop off someones hand, because we don't want anyone to chop off our hand.

Usually we don't run into problems, but we could get in such trouble in a country where they have different sets of values. If you steal $5 in New York you won't get your hand chopped off, if you do it in Saudia Arabia you will, because that's their punishment for theft. For them a hand is not even worth $5.

Now it is kinda obvious that cooking a cat in a microwave heater is outlawed everywhere, so nobody could ever hit on the idea that this is something he could get away with. But what about China? They eat cats and dogs there. What if a chinese guy wants to fix himself a quick cat dinner in the microwave? Cut his hand off, only because he doesn't understand our values?

And what about lobsters? Don't we throw lobsters into boiling water? Maybe I shouldn't say "we", because probably none of the 2+2ers has ever done it, but in restaurants they do. What makes the lobster different to a cat? I mean cats and lobsters are both food in China.