What do you think about it? I find nothing wrong with the thought of cannibalism just as long as the bodies are acquired in accordance with whatever laws may be in place. And I am quite curious to what we taste like.
Yeah, I agree with steevo15 because if you're thinking about how humans taste, that's just weird because in my opinion, humans aren't supposed to eat our own kind. Also that just seems really disgusting. I don't think that I would ever result in cannibalism, even if my life depended on it.
Well, the way I look at it is that when I picture a human eating another human, it just doesn't seem right. Also I don't think we taste the same as, lets say chicken or beef.
According to people who have eaten other people, we actually taste a lot like pork, which makes sense because we are physiologically very similar to pigs. I guess the moral dilemma is thinking about having to carve up a person and eat them. Studies show that severe food deprivation causes non-essential organs to shut down, including parts of the brain that would be repulsed by this idea. I suppose there is some level of repulsion that I feel for eating another human, but I think that's probably just societal influences that I can't get past. You bring up a good point, though - meat is meat. We have a higher intrinsic worth for humans, but a corpse isn't really a human, is it?
Moegreche, do you ever watch Mythbusters? They use pork on all of their experiments in place of actual human bodies because of the reason that they are so similar.
As far as cannibalism goes... I would say that it is not OK. Except for in a situation like the Donner Party, where people were starting to die off, and everyone else was about to die off of food deprivation. So they started eating the ones that had already passed... In a life or death situation, I can see cannibalism as being a possibility. I personally don't know if I could bring myself to do it...
so your saying you would enjoy eating human flesh...someone that used to be alive just like you, look up "the donnor party" on google and read about them, they had to resort to cannibalism to survive and they were scarred for life because they ate human flesh
I've seen several episodes, yes. Poor piggies, I can't imagine what they do to them... I mean I know they're dead, but... yuck. I'm in agreement with the life or death situation, but I can't figure out why. It's got to be social conditioning. I mean, if something is immoral, then isn't it always immoral? I was thinking about a situation like self defense, where if you kill someone that's trying to kill you then it's excusable. But in the case of cannibalism if all parties involved approve it's not hurting anyone, right? From a utilitarian standpoint, cannibalism in a case like that would actually be good, since it would create joy for someone.
have you ever seen the movie Hannibal rising? he was very emotionally scarred as a child, and then later in his life he resorted to cannibalism...i think that someone only in a dire situation or mentally unstable would even think of the idea of cannibalism as being enjoyable or rewarding
steevo15, all of the animals we used to eat used to be alive, just like us. If it is morally wrong on the basis that what you are eating used to be a living, thinking creature, then all consumption of meat would be bad.
