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Is Cannibalism That Wrong?

I have no idea what a tiger is doing on a desert island, I was just making up an example. XD Hypothetical and all that.

I actually don't think it's relevant to the topic at all, my "without inventions we'd be in trouble" was admittedly a bit of an off-topic musing but Harlequin asked me to elaborate.
 
I've heard of people resorting to cannibalism like a century ago after having their ship destroyed by a whale, but still...

...Think of Jeffrey Dahmer. *shudder*

Cannibalism is wrong.
 
srspost: Jeffrey Dahmer was a sick serial killer. We aren't talking about hunting down people and eating them. (Besides, he killed his vics and ate them so that he could "keep a apart of them". Think of it as extreme lonliness gone wrong.) We are talking about if someone dead guy was there, would you eat him?
 
My mom claims to have partied in the apartment building that Dahmer lived in when he was killing and before he was caught.

Logic is more than "cannibalism is sick and wrong because it is sick and wrong."
Refer to the chart Xikaze posted a few pages back. (I assume you have read it, after all.)
 
Actually, when I think about it now, I have a different outlook. (At the time of my last post, I'd just read about *him*. That sicko...) Let's think about it, shall we? Humans have a history of eating humans, whether for ritual, survival, or just because the leader had some weird mental disease that influenced the entire society. Animals eat each other to survive, such as a cow eating chickens. "It's a dog eat dog world" is a famous saying, which can sometimes be literal. Cats eating cats is also possible, while spiders may eat spiders. (I am so gonna regret that last one tonight in bed due to my severe bug-phobia.)

Face it, if animals can eat their own kind, then what is really wrong with humans eating humans? It depends on who you ask. I still say it's wrong, and you can't blame me for having an opinion, as it is the other way. (Wow, I think a lot for an average 14-year-old girl...) However, if it's for some reason like *him*, then I believe everyone here can agree it is truly 100% wrong.

Humans ate humans hundreds of years ago, but the majority of modern people think it is wrong. As time progresses, so do beliefs.
 
Well, of course killing a human just for the fuck of it and eating him is wrong. I sort of meant the question as, if the human were not killed but just died, is eating him wrong sort of thing.
 
(can't remember if i posted here or not)

...animals eat other animals of the same species. i mean, no, i wouldn't go out, kill a person, and eat em just for the sake of having food. (nor would i eat someone at all).

but if the person died and you absolutely had to eat them to live, i don't think it's that wrong. disgusting, sure, but wrong, probably not.
 
If I was starving to death and saw a dead human on the street, I'd probably eat him/her only to survive. I'd probably throw up at the first bite because I'd realize what i was doing, but at least I'd survive.
 
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.
 
Meririn said:
Look, I had a nosebleed that lasted four hours once, and for two of them, the blood was not leaving my nose but rather running down the back of my throat. The human body can't take that much blood being digested, so I ended up vomiting violently for a very long time.

So it's not really a possibility, the human body can't digest very much of itself.
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it'd be fine if you cooked the person...

I think it's fine if it will save your life.
 
So it's not really a possibility, the human body can't digest very much of itself.
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I don't think the human body can particularly digest large quantities of blood at all, really. You also can't use yourself particularly as an example because you can't speak for the human race; you just might be intolerable in particular towards it.
Also if it weren't a possibility then how is it that human cannibalism exists at all? I'm pretty sure there's one or two small cultures that still do it somewhere in the world.
Adding on to what FireChao said, generally people are intolerant of raw meat (I know I am).
Masticating on the flesh of a living being that felt and lived and desired seems barbaric to me.
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Why? Once that being is dead and gone, none of those feelings or desires are attached to it anymore, in any ethical or physical sense. I understand if you're remorseful or somesuch from a religious or spiritual standpoint, but once someone's dead they're made out of meat. :/

Personally I don't really see anything wrong with feeding off of someone else to save your own life; I mean I wouldn't want to do it obviously, and it wouldn't be easy but from an ethical viewpoint then I don't really see why not. I'm not a particularly 'carnivorous' person, I don't particularly like meat and I tend to enjoy vegetables and starchy foods more, but I wouldn't mind if someone fed on my body if I was dead and there was nothing else.
 
I would eat human flesh. I know that it would taste very good, no great to my tounge. I have always dreamed of devouring a human whole, with the cursed meat churning in my stomach acids, the brain dissolving and turning into a pink gray slushie, oooh, and the bones would make eccelent gnawing toys. I am eager to discover what human muscles and fat taste like. I am looking forward to the day that I somehow get lost in the Sahara desert, and I just happen to find another human....

But only a dead one. When one life kills another, their spirit comes back to haunt them.

I would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, even come close to killing a human, or even a non-human animal. I would instead, protect them from harm, even if it meant running through blue-hot fire.

I only kill mosquitos and roaches. No law forbidding those from being squashed. The bugs ghosts dont come back for a lifelong haunt fest. And, I dont have any regret from stabbing a mosquito with its own nose. Plus, I recieve praise whenever I slaughter a mosquito or roach. Oh, and flies too.

Those flies....

THEY ALWAYS GET IN MY FOOD, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS!!!! IF I EVER GET THE CHANCE TO EAT A HUMAN CORPSE, I WOULD TELL THE FLIES THAT THE MEAL IS ALL MINE!!!! MINE!!!! MINE!!!!!

So in conclusion, cannibalisim is not bad.
 
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