(March 17, 2018 at 12:14 am)Khemikal Wrote: Yeah it's kuru. It's the only known consequence of cannibalism on record..it was limited to a small group of people who had..wait for it...kuru...and even though they stopped eating people with kuru a ways back..they keep getting kuru. Leading researchers to posit that kuru may have an abnormally long incubation period..or there may be more ways to get kuru from a person with kuru (or from wherever the hell they're getting kuru now).
The bloodism thing was a joke. There is no such effect of cannibalism, lol.
There's no known inbuilt safeguard to cannibalism, either, not in that sense anyway. More interestingly, why would you think it would make sense that there would be?
Thanks for the info
Don't worry, I didn't understand what you were saying anyway... just thought you were having a dig at the vagueness of my comment about the disease... so I guess I got a bit defensive.Anyway, it's just speculation and not well thought out... not based on anything in particular just that it would make sense to me from an evolutionary point of view (maybe... as I said, not well thought out) that eating one's own kind wouldn't be good for the species... and given the curious fact that all meat tastes different... which implies to me that they each have their own sort of chemical signature, it didn't seem much of a leap to think animals could have an aversion to certain signatures. But as I said this just a rough thought, and it could be a load of bollocks, but it's not exactly important to me... just a rough and throwaway thought.
