(June 26, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Iroscato Wrote:(June 26, 2015 at 9:32 pm)Louis Chérubin Wrote: Even more interesting :-). Do you think it matters that kudo usually came as a result of mortuary cannibalism (they weren't actually murdering anyone)? This reminds me of the discussion my anthropology class had last semester of the morality of mortuary cannibalism. Stimulating stuff! Lol the discussion not the cannibalism!
It is interesting, but my point wasn't that it's immoral per se, murder has nothing to do with it. Kuru may be one of the main reasons why cannibalism is, to quote Willy Wonka, frowned upon in most cultures. The observation that such practice caused the disease then leads to it becoming taboo. Morality itself probably didn't play a major part in the development of that idea, but came after the fact. There are many such examples found in society and nature, but due to it being 2:40AM here, I am rapidly forgetting how to brain.
That only deters sissy cowards. Real men are not afraid of such things, and eat what they want to eat. Next you will be telling us how vegetarians live longer than omnivores, and vegans live even longer. As if you would live forever if you don't eat people! Fucking cowards.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
