is cannibalism wrong

[TheDrunkNinja]

Why does this topic keep appearing on the Escapist over and over again? This is like the third fucking time in the last two months. Either some of you need to take a break from Fallout 3 or I might have to go to great lengths just to make sure nobody here ever finds out where I live...

 

[NoblePhilistineFox]

PERVERT JOKE TIME!!!
no, because more women need to eat men
*crickets...*

OT:
no, because if you dont have a good reason besides "imorral" then its not wrong,
just dont kill me TwT

 

[MGlBlaze]

depends on the situation. if your starving and their dead, why not?

Pretty much my view. Generally I'd say no, but if it was a matter of survival and the other person was dead already while you were starving with no other food sources... there wouldn't be much other choice, would there?

Fuck I hope I'm never in that situation.

Judging by the fact doctors use pigs as human stand-ins, I'd say we taste something like pork.

Interesting speculation but I would rather not have to find out for sure.

 

[cartographer54]

Well, the simplest answer: if you are what you eat, cannibals are people too.

 

[King of the N00bs]

in the right situation...like where starvation held in the balance...yes if someone died naturally it would be okay in order for a group of living people to survive

 

[flangleelgnalf]

right and wrong are relative, but no i dont think its wrong.
i probably woulden't do it because im fairly sure we taste bad, but if i get the chance i may say yes. its always good to try new things - or whatever that saying is.

 

[EgoDeusEst]

Soylent Green; Made from nutricious plankton'n'shit.

 

[randomsix]

Cannibalism, like any other activity (of such broad definition) is not inherently good or bad. The "why" is always the most important part of determining the morality of such an action.

That said, I personally find it to be repulsive, but that is an emotional reaction, not a moral one.

 

[Knight Templar]

It is strange and you would need to wonder why a person what desire to eat another human, but that doesn't make it wrong. It could be wrong if you judge it by how helpful it is to society, and a species eating its own kind is normally bad. Then there is the health risks that come with eating your own species, those are very bad, but not immoral exactly.

So eating people is usually immoral, but circumstance can change that.

 

[Lullabye]

Not to me it's not.
I do think killing people then eating them to satisfy your hunger(unless it's starvation) is wrong. But that's just me.

 

[DazBurger]

If I HAD too, I would eat human...
But I would not hunt for it... With the exeption of if the "prey" were willing to kill me on sight.

But meh... Prolly tastes like ass too. Meat from predators mostly tastes a bit of pee... Due to... Something there is unique to predatores... I dunno-lol.
But thats why you dont really see any predator-meat on the menu.

 

[cryogeist]

well if its a last resort then no its not wrong but if there other means of food then yes

 

[starhaven]

i would if there was nothing else to eat
but its not a good thing to eat to much of, i would only eat enough to live and then go find somthing else

 

[Free Thinker]

It's wrong with the wrong seasonings...
I'm thinking some ground-up pepper, natural herbs, cooked in chili pepper infused olive oil, and throw in some onions, potatoes, and other assorted vegetables for a more appeasing flavor.

 

[Drakmeire]

I'm not too sure, technically nothing is right or wrong since everything is relative to a person from what I've gathered human would taste a lot like ham since our muscle structure is very similar to that of pig,
So who wants some crispy human bacon?

 

[ddon]

Only if they were killed by the cannibal.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

You'll take note that even cavemen had problems with eating humans, I'll take a leap o faith and say mammals as a whole don't do it.
I believe it is simply an unwritten tabboo, lke incest.

Of course if your plane crashed in the mountains then I guess if you wanna live, and live with yourself afterwords.......

 

[Dirty Saint]

Cannibalism is unhealthy and/or immoral, depending on who you ask. More importantly: it's skipping a few steps in the circle of life.

Person dies ->eat person ->person dies, most likely from cannibalistic illness ->repeat o.o

Person dies ->bury person in land intended for future use ->use land for crops or livestock grazing ->eat crops and livestock -> person dies of natural causes ->repeat, everybody is happy ^.^

....unless you need to be buried in a heavy, oak, oblong box. Then I got nothin'. >.>

 

[lokun489]

yeah if only for the desieses