is cannibalism wrong

[Croaker42]

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The disease you are talking about is Kuru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
The more you know.

Anyway its a terrible way to die.
Inspite of my previeous post I doubt I would have the willpower to eat anyone.
But that is probably due to the social conventions I have come to accept growing up where and when I did. Thus it would go the same for eating a horse, dog or cat.

 

[GrinningManiac]

completley wrong

Why? Why would you have to ask AT ALL? It's a naturally adopted moral position in our society, it dosen't need asking, it dosen't need answering

 

[FolkLikePanda]

I'd eat someone if I murdered them, just to bury some of the evidence, I'd also grind down the bones and sell them as medicine as some kind. I'd probably eat a PeTA member as well just so I won't be eating an animal that isn't human so I'd be both decrasing their numbers by doing something they were telling us all to do. Also if I was on an island I'd eat the first person who dies. ...what?

I'm never going camping with you.

Don't worry I would never eat you, unless you're PeTA!!! Or someone I hate. Or someone who'd annoy me.

Does off-key drunken signing annoy you?

Nope, not at all.

 

[Diligent]

We can't eat another human body because humans eat unnatural things like poptarts, mcdonalds, and pizza.

Hey man, if you can digest McDonalds, you can digest a human corpse.

Seriously though, no, cannibalism isn't cool.

 

[Choppaduel]

Like with all moral choices, it depends on the situation.

 

[Sjakie]

If you die and i'm really, really hungry....well, it's not like you would notice anyway.

 

[Jinx5934]

i was think is cannibalism wrong im not talking about farming people or hunting them down from food but lets say some one died naturally would it be wrong then to have some of his ribs for lunch? so i want to know what you think escapist.

I went to a college taster day last week, and did Law as one of my subjects, and we learnt that cannibalism is legal. Obviously you'd have to legally get hold of the body, but the act of eating human flesh is legal. I wouldn't do it unless starving, but still.

 

[Plurralbles]

Um... dying naturally is a problem. Most people don't eat things that died naturally. There are problems with it, I think. Serious health concerns. Though there is a tribe in africa or south america that does eat its old people who die. There are ill effects from doing it. So, no, don't eat anything that died naturally, let alone a stupid human whose meat is almost toxic and of no significant nutritional value.

Do you mean kuru? That's because they were eating the brains/spinal column. Also, good job on geography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

lol. Geography Fail. Ohwell. I honestly couldn't remember the name so I couldn't look it up to check but because I picked out 2/7 continents that they could be on, obviously I don't know where they are so... anyway in the 15th century there were brazilian cannibals so... meh. Not a huge deal.

 

[TheTaco007]

I see nothing wrong with it if it's not voluntary. If you're starving to death, and someone else has already died, go ahead. Just don't kill anyone.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Cannibalism is OK in my opinion depending on the situation.
If you are trapped in the mountains with no means of rescue and other people around you have died and you are without any other sources of food, then by all means at the corpse.
However, if you are taking living humans off the street and butchering them just for the sake of eating them, then you are a severely wrong individual.

 

[Caliostro]

i was think is cannibalism wrong im not talking about farming people or hunting them down from food but lets say some one died naturally would it be wrong then to have some of his ribs for lunch? so i want to know what you think escapist.

Wrong? There's no such a thing as right and wrong when it comes to morality. Morality is a cancerous and outdated social construct that needs to go the way of the dodo.

I wouldn't recommend it though, not out of "morality" but we don't react very well to eating our own meat, even going as far as being linked to some forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

 

[Maxman3002]

I havnt botherd to read all 185 comments but im assuming someone has already explained about Prion Diseases? CJD and Kuru are easilly transfered between people through canablism (Kuru in perticular). Once you have a prion disease there is no cure. CJD can also be gained through eating infected cows.

If you eat someone and that person turns out to have a prion disease you will then have it and will slowly loose nurological control over the years. In the same way that its dangerous to have unprotected sex with someone HIV possitive it is also dangerous to eat someone that has a prion disease. And also in the same way there is no way of knowing if someone has a prion disease untill the symptoms properly start showing so its generally considered better not to risk it.

The meat you eat has normally been tested before its alowed to be sold, those facilitys arnt normally happy to test people for consumption

 

[Harkwell]

The way i see it, its wrong to do in any way apart from pure survival and even thats stretching it. For example, if you're stranded in a boat and your friends or crew have died and you have no food, you'd need to eat them to survive. But then ofcourse there is the psychologial problems and that you'll probably keep wanting more.

Yeah, and then you'll start wearing their skulls as hats and drive aroung in a WWII motorcycle. Cookie if you know the reference.