Why Exactly Is Cannibalism Wrong?

if it were ok to to eat people to many people would get killed just to be eaten.

Why at birth do we drink mothers milk and then once we get past the age of 1 we no longer like to drink human milk, we drink the milk of a cow instead. Does anyone else find this weird.

nongreenthumb said:

Why at birth do we drink mothers milk and then once we get past the age of 1 we no longer like to drink human milk, we drink the milk of a cow instead. Does anyone else find this weird.

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pictures of selma make me think the same thing.

fdd2blk said:

if it were ok to to eat people to many people would get killed just to be eaten.

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huh? does that even make sense? or is salma just distracting me?

Selma's must be bred to produce milk though... I will take one for the team and volunteer for the breeding(if i have too...)

closet.cult said:

huh? does that even make sense? or is salma just distracting me?

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think of a hunter and a deer. he sees a prime trophy buck, he's going to do whatever he can to kill it. people would become trophies on the wall. wouldn't a well fed and healthy athlete be better than a homeless person. or would the athlete be to tough. what about heavy people. to much fat to trim. where would the meat come from. accidental death. oh, whoops i just "accidentally" killed that prime fillet.

so (without the pic)........."if it were ok to eat people, to many people would be killed just to be eaten."

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"Honey, I want steak for dinner."
-"Sure sweetie, but its rump roast"



Then again some would be killed for pest removal.


Rosie o' rump roast. My favorite. mmmmmmmm

fdd2blk said:

think of a hunter and a deer. he sees a prime trophy buck, he's going to do whatever he can to kill it. people would become trophies on the wall. wouldn't a well fed and healthy athlete be better than a homeless person. or would the athlete be to tough. what about heavy people. to much fat to trim. where would the meat come from. accidental death. oh, whoops i just "accidentally" killed that prime fillet.

so (without the pic)........."if it were ok to eat people, to many people would be killed just to be eaten."

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oh. gotcha.

i DON'T want it to be o.k. to eat people. it's gross. i was just wondering WHY it would be wrong.

i just finshed Michael Crichton's 'Eaters of the Dead' about the Vikings who fought these Neaderthal-like creatures 1,000 years ago who ate dead people. And also, Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear' where a main character gets eaten by cannibals. Both were very good books.

What a topic here. Wow!
Cannibalism has been around for thousands of years. Religions use it, stories tell of it (even kids stores ie: Hansel & Gretel), sickos murder and do it, mythology talks of it.
I think it is sick, gross and morally wrong basically because we as society have been told that.
I thought long and hard about this and can't figure out if it is wrong or not.......
We have been told that, but is it really wrong?
I wouldn't do it unless an extreme situation arose and needed to for survival. Maybe.
Some don't think it is wrong why? Hmmmmm

Chiceh

It wrong for one reason and one reason only. What would we do with Rosie's leftovers?

make LOTS of soap and bombs.

WillieNelson said:

It wrong for one reason and one reason only. What would we do with Rosie's leftovers?

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feed it to the hogs.

You could use her head to control sunlight, to create eclipses. Gotta go guys I'm starving.

Here is why cannabilism is wrong...

It is your child on the menu.

incestual cannibalism. gross.

we shouldn't criticize cannibalism, when we haven't eaten a gram of nutrient in a long time and we are starving to death our superior functions disconnect to save power, our neocortex stays functionless, only reptilian brain stays and it ask the rest of the body to get food, AT ALL MEANS POSSIBLE

Is this Cannabolism too if it is Im all for it

el maco, cannibalism to stay alive isn't being critisized. but itualistic or otherwise is pretty gross and immoral.

hell yeah, ozstone. i'm hungry for that human flesh all day long.

It's not inherently wrong, from an ethical standpoint. It's totally neutral. KILLING another human being in order to eat them is ethically wrong, but eating the meat (or anything else) has no inherent ethnical value. The only argument that holds any weight is that you are eating a being that is as fully sentient as yourself. Then again, when they are dead, putting aside religious sensibilites, they are just meat. And tastey meat, supposedly.

The argument against human beings consuming other humans is no stronger than against that of eating meat in general. I choose to eat meat on occasion, but I'll admit... Masticating on the flesh of a living being that felt and lived and desired seems barbaric to me.

Many cultures around the world have practiced some form of cannablism. In a ritual context (before the advent of colonialism), it was not taboo. Eating another human being solely for survival is not generally taboo even in our culture, though there is still stigma attatched to it. It all comes down to cultural taboos. You'll be stigmatized by your society if you do eat another human being, but there is nothing inherently "wrong" with it so long as you don't hunt another human being. Many Jains and Hindus, I'm sure, find it reprehensible to eat the flesh of any living being. It just depends on the culture and time period in which you were born.

This is an anthropological perspective though. Generally, people around the world don't think it's -horribly- wrong until some Christian missionary tells them it is. They may have some taboos regarding the way they are consumed, what is consumed, or in what context it is allowable though. Generally, people are too sentimental to wantonly eat their own kind, unless you're a sociopath and don't really feel anything at all; you just fake it so society accepts you.

~Ethno

If you get yourself a document that states you were willing to be killed and eaten by the eater [is that even a word?] then it's technically not a crime.

I would chow down on human flesh if i really had to..

I'm sure if someone came up to you and offered you a million to eat a plate of meat, you're not gonna question what it is, you're just gonna say "pass me the tomato sauce!"

It's morally wrong to take another persons life and it's immoral to eat them!

Besides.. you'll probably be locked away for it.
if you get caught.
Muahahaha!