is cannibalism wrong

[Caligulust]

I remember hearing about a group or tribe somewhere that preferred to eat the dead than to bury them and let them be eaten insects and such.

I personally wouldn't eat another human unless it was necessary for survival. Even then, I wouldn't kill them to eat them.

Other than that I couldn't eat one. It's an odd thought to devour a human. Someone who has probably gone many places, seen and done many things. That piece of human flesh was probably once a child with hopes and dreams. Now they're on your dinner plate.

It's just really weird to me.

 

[DarkHuntress]

Depends on how hungry you are.

 

[Gawspel]

I don't think it's wrong, just don't eat the brain. You can get some weird diseases from chompin' on people's noggins.

 

[thenoblitt]

well really depends, i mean if your stranded somewhere and your friend keels over, hell i say eat him i would have anyboy eat me if i died and i was stranded so i assume the same for them, but then again mad cow disease got started by cows eating other cows so you never know

 

[Drejer43]

why are we having this discusion?

Exactly!

 

[Lavi]

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)

 

[EqualNOpposite]

Some species are naturally cannibalistic, like crabs for instace. A lot of reptiles are. Some mammals like rats will eat their own kin, dead or not, But they fuck their siblings so yea. It tends to be animals that are naturally communal. I think our biology tells us we aren't meant to eat each other so we will go after the tougher prey.

So, most mammals don't do it then? Seems about right. Either way, it's an obvious no-no for us walking apes.

 

[Super Toast]

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.

Unless you're dying of starvation, a million times yes.

 

[Mastercylinder]

YES but, mainly it's because your body isn't designed to deal with that. If you did eat a fellow human being, you'd contract a human form of mad cow disease.

 

[Danallighieri]

Nah it ain't wrong, human is just another meat for people to try, it ain't like eating one of your own species is really THAT wrong

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

now if you best friend just died right next to you, yes i have a problem. But if you crashed on an island and had nothing to eat. I saw go for it.

 

[BringBackBuck]

That is just disgusting. Plus another reason NOT to be a vegetarian.

-because if you were going to eat a person, you'd go for the grain fed variety.

Vegetarians - the wagyu of people.

 

[Tenebrae Aeternus]

If they were already dead, sure. I'd rather be a necrophagist than just be plain murdering people

 

[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?

 

[tkioz]

The taboo about cannibalism is one of those taboos that came about for a good reason, at the time. For example, the drinking of human blood, and the eating of pork are similar taboos, and they all have one thing in common, they are bad for you, like seriously bad.

If you eat undercooked pork or human flesh you can get seriously sick, even more so with human flesh as you can catch whatever the hell they had, illnesses rarely jump species, but ingesting human flesh? That's just asking for it. If I remember rightly there was a tribe of cannibals in south east Asia that kept dying young due to a prion infection that kept jumping from generation to generation, how was it jumping? well the tribes funeral rites involved eating the brains of the dude person...

So yeah, we're all enlightened and everything now, but that doesn't mean that taboos didn't and still don't serve a purpose, you just have to consider the time when they were invented and what they are actually talking about.

 

[tkioz]

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.

 

[Croaker42]

Well I am hungry.
I have no means of catching game.
I have not skill at finding food in the wild.
And in that sleeping bag....... You look like a burrito.

I guess at that point all you can do is hope I am caused dibilitating pain when it comes time to pass you.

 

[Teh Ty]

I guess with consent of the person before they died, but I'e always wanted to try out human.

 

[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.

 

[tkioz]

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?