Cezphus
Feb 20 2006, 10:34 AM
What do you think on the subject of human cannibalism? Do you think it is right that humans eat other humans once they are gone? In the middle-ages, cannibalism was popular in Brazil, this prooves that eating over humans is not bad for the body and is thought to improve us, as other humans have a lot of iron and other minerals within their flesh. Until now, cannibalism has been thought of as a horrid human action, for example, you see in the movies another human murdering and eating the raw meat of another human or something, but can't it be perfectly normal to some extent? I know what you're thinking, "Let's pop down to the local butchers and buy a couple LBs of human, tastes great with gravy" won't sound right, but can't be get used to it? I'm not a supporter, I'm just trying to open up your minds to the many different possiblities throughout the world. And no, I haven't ate human. 
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Feb 20 2006, 11:02 AM
Good going dude - this is going to the most hilarious discussion ever. As for me, HELL NO. I wouldn't support cannibalism at all. I mean the mere thought of eating your own kind - YUCK. Humans can go find 'n' number of other better sources for all those minerals and iron - but not fellow humans, please. 
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Jeigh
Feb 20 2006, 01:06 PM
Before I vote, I'll ask if you mean only in the organized fashion you mentioned , as a culturally accepted act, or as an emergency reaction. I mean if I was stranded without food waiting for rescue and a companion died... you could live a fair while extra off the food provided by a human :| As far as culturally accepted, I would agree with the 'hell no' aspect. I think there is a reason modern more developed cultures have moved away fromm such acts... because it's messed the **** up haha. Eating your own is about as animalistic as you can get... and even animals often choose to not eat their own if other options are available. But in EXTREME cases of survival it would be acceptable I guess...
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Quatrux
Feb 20 2006, 06:48 PM
Firstly, I am against cannibalism, because eating other human is a bit strange, especially in our developed world. But still I can say a lot, I saw some movies where people needed to eat their dead friends if they wanted to survive. As a matter of fact, human meat is the same meat and it has a lot of healthy things, minerals and stuff. I have read that people meat is one of the best meats and it is tasty too (I never tried it though) especially young people are tasty  Of course, I am against stuff like, we start hunting each other for food, like in some kind of a jungle  it would be dangerous to live. Among animals there is cannibalism too, especially among predators. But I think we got smart enough to not eat human meat, it is something disgusting. Furthermore I read that in some restaurant, some volunteers were given some meat and they all liked it, said that the meat was similar to chicken, but when they finished eating, they were informed eating a recently dead people meat. :S
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twitch
Feb 21 2006, 08:01 AM
Hello no seems to be a good concept. But, I would have to say Hell no in any situation. Even if I were stranded, I would eat poisonous leafs before even thinking about nibbling on someone's leg. But you do raise a point, that social conditioning of our minds has lead us to not each other (apart from the extreme cases). I think it is the best way, but who knows really if you've never done it.
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Sarah81
Feb 22 2006, 01:58 AM
Well ... "Jeffrey Dahmer" is one of the first things that come to mind for most people when cannibalism is mentioned, so that's going to turn a lot of people off where this subject is concerned. I can't honestly say that I would support the practice. 1. There are plenty of other ways to get all the nutrients that the human body needs. If that weren't true, those of us who live in cultures where cannibalism isn't practiced would all be either dead or seriously malnourished. 2. Even when I'm really broke, I can find some sort of food. It's not like we're talking about eating a plane-crash victim or starving to death here. In that sort of situation, I'd be a lot more open-minded, seeing as people do very desperate things to survive (such as the rock climber who hacked off his own arm that was pinned beneath a rock). Besides: I like food to taste, look and smell good. I can't imagine a cooked human arm or something meeting those requirements.
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abhiram
Feb 22 2006, 03:51 AM
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Having your friends home for dinner" . There must be some benefit to cannibalism. I mean, it's not the question of eating human beings, but rather about whether there is any use in eating human flesh. Earlier, some tribes used to practice cannibalism not for the pleasure of eating, but because they felt they inherited the talents and skills of the person whom they were eating. For example, if a person were clever or intelligent, they would eat him so as to become clever or intelligent. But this was done only after the person died ... atleast that's what I remember reading in a book. Sometimes they even ate their parents to "absorb" their wisdom. While we're on the topic of human flesh, a friend of mine told me that some people eat human embryos <shudder> ... in some country .... is this true? I've heard that it's served as a regular item on the menu in the restaurant <shudder> <shudder>. Any truth in this?
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saga
Feb 22 2006, 11:40 AM
Yes I would, but not in our current civilization. I mean, I believe before we all became civilized and developed, before we knew how to use tools we might have been a cannibal. LIke for example the chimpanzee, they eat the other faction/tribes/gang if it wanders in their territory.  ANd they seem so excited about it. So becuase we are the closest thing to them I guess we have the same attitude a long time ago So why not? as long as it is the last resort of survival. After all, we are born and raised to survive and pass the genes we have to the next generation so that our kind, the human beings, will survive and outlast mother earth.
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Jeigh
Feb 22 2006, 04:32 PM
But remember sarah, a nice piece of Jeigh steak wouldn't look all that different from other meats. I mean all meat looks a little different, but unless you were literally chewing it right off of someone, the meat would look like any other meat. Especially if prepared properly "Garcon! I want your best human, medium well, with all the trimmings!"
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Feb 22 2006, 04:43 PM
QUOTE(Jeigh @ Feb 22 2006, 11:32 PM)  But remember sarah, a nice piece of Jeigh steak wouldn't look all that different from other meats. I mean all meat looks a little different, but unless you were literally chewing it right off of someone, the meat would look like any other meat. Especially if prepared properly "Garcon! I want your best human, medium well, with all the trimmings!" Errrm.. Jeigh - you remind me of the Dish of the Day from Restaurant at the End of the Universe - the second book in Douglas Adam's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Let me quote a passage from it: QUOTE(Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
The waiter approached.
"Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?"
"Huh?" said Ford.
"Huh?" said Arthur.
"Huh?" said Trillian.
"That's cool," said Zaphod, "we'll meet the meat."
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A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips.
"Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?" It harrumphed and gurgled a bit, wriggled its hind quarters into a more comfortable position and gazed peacefully at them.
Its gaze was met by looks of startled bewilderment from Arthur and Trillian, a resigned shrug from Ford Prefect and naked hunger from Zaphod Beeblebrox.
"Something off the shoulder perhaps?" suggested the animal, "Braised in a white wine sauce?"
"Er, your shoulder?" said Arthur in a horrified whisper.
"But naturally my shoulder, sir," mooed the animal contentedly, "nobody else's is mine to offer."
Zaphod leapt to his feet and started prodding and feeling the animal's shoulder appreciatively.
"Or the rump is very good," murmured the animal. "I've been exercising it and eating plenty of grain, so there's a lot of good meat there." It gave a mellow grunt, gurgled again and started to chew the cud. It swallowed the cud again.
"Or a casserole of me perhaps?" it added.
"You mean this animal actually wants us to eat it?" whispered Trillian to Ford.
"Me?" said Ford, with a glazed look in his eyes, "I don't mean anything."
"That's absolutely horrible," exclaimed Arthur, "the most revolting thing I've ever heard."
"What's the problem Earthman?" said Zaphod, now transferring his attention to the animal's enormous rump.
"I just don't want to eat an animal that's standing here inviting me to," said Arthur, "it's heartless."
"Better than eating an animal that doesn't want to be eaten," said Zaphod.
"That's not the point," Arthur protested. Then he thought about it for a moment. "Alright," he said, "maybe it
is the point. I don't care, I'm not going to think about it now. I'll just ... er ..."
The Universe raged about him in its death throes.
"I think I'll just have a green salad," he muttered.
"May I urge you to consider my liver?" asked the animal, "it must be very rich and tender by now, I've been
force-feeding myself for months."
"A green salad," said Arthur emphatically.
"A green salad?" said the animal, rolling his eyes disapprovingly at Arthur.
"Are you going to tell me," said Arthur, "that I shouldn't have green salad?"
"Well," said the animal, "I know many vegetables that are very clear on that point. Which is why it was eventually decided to cut through the whole tangled problem and breed an animal that actually wanted to be
eaten and was capable of saying so clearly and distinctly. And here I am."
It managed a very slight bow.
"Glass of water please," said Arthur.
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Laos
Mar 16 2006, 11:32 AM
Well, This often occurs in Polar coniditions ( North west passage Expidition hmm?)where no vegitation and most animals are around. Or in the Sea, where rough weather stranded u in one location, forced to eat each other for survival
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Houdini
Mar 16 2006, 02:48 AM
It is simple if you are under dire circumstances and there is nothing to eat and others about you have expired then when starvation overwhelmes you then it is time to eat comething, flesh from another human and the nourishment it provides is all there is left or you will also expire, mostly due to principles or faith in some religious practice. If stranded and too stupid to catch a fish or trap a rabbit or some other animal or find an edible herb then this question would never be posed, you would have to be locked up in a prison like environment and restricted before you ever had to make a choice of eating the flesh of another human. I Just don't tink I will ever be in such circumstances as to have to make such a choice.
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Laos
Mar 16 2006, 02:18 AM
Cannibalism, is just fine, When as a necessitary. Eating each other when: all muscles and protien have been used all but the lungs, heart and Brain are left you're thinking of love ( yes, it tells you your cerebral cotrex is shutting down, meaning survival mode is being activated) then kill somone and live longer, only way of survival when theres food however, dont kill other humans
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mitchellmckain
Mar 11 2006, 11:55 PM
I would like to point out that cannibalism is not any kind solution for the problem of growing population and diminishing resources. We would do better, objective speaking, just killing off the excess population and using them for fertilizer. NOT, that I am in any way in favor of such a thing. Human meat, while nutritious (everything the body needs, ha ha), is not a very healthy food due to the concentrations of poisons. With the amount of drugs we feed to livestock the concentration of poisons in their meat is bad enough. But the shere diversity of drugs people put into themselves combined with the length of life would make human meat far more toxic. On the other hand poisoning ourselves in this way may help reduce the population problem in the long run.
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Jeigh
Mar 11 2006, 04:33 PM
Eating someone ALIVE would be a problem about the soul. But as long as we wait for them to be dead I don't see how the soul would be affected. It would, assumedly, be long gone. plus eating a body would really be more respectful then letting it slowly deteriorate and eventually be devoured by bugs... at least we would treat it as good as any meat we were about to eat 
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