Is it wrong to eat humans?

[talkingmonkey]

No really, people talk about the morality of eating animals. What's the difference between lower animals and ourselves, except that we can talk more fluently.

What are people's moral grounds on this. It seem to be just social taboo, besides the Native American myth of Wendigo.

Cannibalism is still prevalent in indiginous tribes around the World, but oooh it's terrible to eat a human.

 

[ArchaicTruth]

If you want to eat a human who you found already dead and does not have any family or friends who want the corpse or anything of that sort, eat away. If you kill someone and then eat them, then you deserve to be shot in the knee caps and dragged to a mental hospital.

 

[Caitlin.ann]

No really, people talk about the morality of eating animals. What's the difference between lower animals and ourselves, except that we can talk more fluently.

What are people's moral grounds on this. It seem to be just social taboo, besides the Native American myth of Wendigo.

Cannibalism is still prevalent in indiginous tribes around the World, but oooh it's terrible to eat a human.

For me, Cannibalism is fascinating. I am an inspiring anthropologist so I find the history of Cannibalism interesting. I'm not talking about criminal cannibalism or survival cannibalism, but rather tribal cannibalism today and throughout history. I find it interesting that here it is socially taboo, but in other places its not.

However, it is not for me. Its great for a tribe in the middle of the jungle (or wherever), but I could never do it. And as much as I hate to say it, I do have a bit of a social taboo against it myself. Its an ick factor for me as well as an emotional factor.

But what makes it taboo is dependent on the society in question.

 

[keith99]

Moral issues? Well it is a dangerous path to take to become a legit food source for the most dangerous of animals.

Also eating anything too close in type to yourself is risky from a disease standpoint.

But any Christian should not have any moral issues as long as the one eaten gave their OK.

 

[Electric Skeptic]

I have often stated that if ever through accident I lose a limb, I would want to keep the limb so that I could have a butcher correctly remove and prepare the flesh for me so that I could eat it - just to try human flesh.

Strangely enough, I've only ever found one person who thought it was a good idea. In fact, he asked if he could come to the dinner.

 

[FaithLikeARock]

If it were my only source of food I would eat someone presuming they were already dead. But just to eat someone for the sake of eating someone?

 

[flicka]

People have eaten people before. I wouldn't, But there are lots of things I don't want to eat. And the logistics are difficult since we don't raise humans for food you would have to kill one yourself (murder) or wait for one to die and risk disease.

 

[stan1980]

I have often stated that if ever through accident I lose a limb, I would want to keep the limb so that I could have a butcher correctly remove and prepare the flesh for me so that I could eat it - just to try human flesh.

Strangely enough, I've only ever found one person who thought it was a good idea. In fact, he asked if he could come to the dinner.

Was your friend's name Gunther?

 

[QuakerOats]

Yes, I think it's wrong to eat humans [who don't want to be eaten, or have no real way to say, 'Yes, please eat me']. If, however, you want to be eaten, and it can be verified, I suppose that's your choice to make.

 

[cantata]

No really, people talk about the morality of eating animals. What's the difference between lower animals and ourselves, except that we can talk more fluently.

What are people's moral grounds on this. It seem to be just social taboo, besides the Native American myth of Wendigo.

Cannibalism is still prevalent in indiginous tribes around the World, but oooh it's terrible to eat a human.

I don't think it's inherently wrong, as long as a) you didn't kill anyone in order to eat them (perhaps unless they freely consented), and b) no one is going to be mortified that you ate their relative.

I think a society in which people were worried that they might get eaten after they died, or that their relatives might be eaten, would be a troubled society. If people were able to sign something which said that they would donate their bodies to cannibals (or necrophiliacs) after they died, I don't see the problem, although arguably there is something rather wrong with anyone who particularly wants to eat human flesh or have sex with dead bodies, and one could reasonably say that perpetuating such a pathology would not be a positive thing to do.

 

[cantata]

Also eating anything too close in type to yourself is risky from a disease standpoint.

This is a very good point. It's not very healthy for a human to eat human flesh; all sorts of diseases can ensue.

Of course, this alone doesn't make it morally wrong. We permit lots of things that are damaging to people's health.

 

[Lockguy3000]

I have often stated that if ever through accident I lose a limb, I would want to keep the limb so that I could have a butcher correctly remove and prepare the flesh for me so that I could eat it - just to try human flesh.

mmm...I'll bring the fava beans, and a nice bottle of Chianti

 

[Wednesday]

Um. Has anyone here seen a movie *Dead Man*, the scene where Lance Henriksen is eating a hand of a guy he just killed.

Also I must bring this up again
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

And who can forget this case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

In situations like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Leningrad

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

I find cannibalism revolting, but in cases like I've listed above, I don't know, it just adds to the horror.

About eating yourself, you might want to read Survivor Type by Stephen King

Now as previously was said if you manage to find a corpse that has no one, knock yourself out.

 

[cantata]

About eating yourself

That reminds me:

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Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace,
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Univers, sans-serif][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, Univers, sans-serif]Horace, Terry Jones[/FONT][/FONT]​

 

[Robbie_James_Francis]

Oddly, I've thought about this recently. If they were already dead, and I really needed to, then absolutely.

14 hours on a coach leads to some quite odd "would you rather?" questions...this decision comes from "Would you rather eat a live tarantula or part of your dead grandmother's body?"

OK, I admit I have issues.

 

[Merlin]

Humans are not kosher as a food.

 

[LittleNipper]

No really, people talk about the morality of eating animals. What's the difference between lower animals and ourselves, except that we can talk more fluently.

What are people's moral grounds on this. It seem to be just social taboo, besides the Native American myth of Wendigo.

Cannibalism is still prevalent in indiginous tribes around the World, but oooh it's terrible to eat a human.

Man is the only kind that GOD's Word states was created in the image of GOD. Would you eat GOD?

 

[cantata]

Man is the only kind that GOD's Word states was created in the image of GOD. Would you eat GOD?

"While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, 'Take and eat; this is my body.'" (Matt. 26:26)

 

[Caitlin.ann]

Man is the only kind that GOD's Word states was created in the image of GOD. Would you eat GOD?

Depends..does god come with honey mustard?

 

[cantata]

Depends..does god come with honey mustard?

Nom nom nom *lipsmack*