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Would you eat human flesh?

I would give it a nibble, just to satisfy my curiosity, then I would never eat human again...
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If would try it, and if I liked I'd add it to my permenant menu.
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What do you this toothpick is for?
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I wouldn't eat human flesh, but I don't mind if other people do.
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I think that it is morally wrong to eat human flesh.
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I think that anyone who even consider's eating human flesh will be damned to hell.
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Would you eat soceity's "forbidden fruit"?

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I just saw Hannibal and I was wondering if people would actually eat human flesh if they had the chance....... you know just for fun. Also, I wanted to discuss why people think that this is morally wrong. Personally, I dont have a problem with this as long as it dosent involve murder or violation of a persons will. I'm sure that this thread brings a whole meaning to organ donation though.
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I remember hearing about some South Pacific islanders who used to use human flesh in some of their ceremonies.

They have since switched to SPAM, as the village elders said it tasted the most like human flesh. 8)
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I guess we know where all those hobos went to now........
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Damaramu wrote:I remember hearing about some South Pacific islanders who used to use human flesh in some of their ceremonies.

They have since switched to SPAM, as the village elders said it tasted the most like human flesh. 8)
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Heh..makes you think twice before eating that next SPAM-burger! :lol:
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Probably if I was starving. Not before.
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Depends on where the meat came from.
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Wouldn't even give it a nibble. Justifiably taboo.
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If you want to eat human flesh, that's your problem. As long as you don't injure anyone for flesh, it's all good. That said, I would not like to eat human flesh.
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Human - the other white meat. :D
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I remember reading about a guy that has. He sauted the placenta from his kid's birth. :x
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data_link wrote:Human - the other white meat. :D
Goth, the other white meat...
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Only if starving, or if someone started marketing Soylent Green, made from 100% Hard Core PETA volunteers (Who wanted no animals to suffer for our need for Big Macs), & Lawyers.
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data_link wrote:Human - the other white meat. :D
Human babies- The other,other white meat

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Only if starving and there was no other option, but wouldn't kill anyone in order to do it, though. Circumstances such as those depicted in the movie Alive would qualify. In case you haven't seen it, it involved a bunch of Argentinian rugby players and some other people who were going to Chile crashlanding in the Andes and being stranded for something like two months in there before they were rescued. They had to eat their dead to stay alive. It happened sometime in the early 70s.

As for cannibalism as a practice, it was quite commonplace among certain cultures in the Pacific and some cultures in Africa and presumably also in South America. I don't have any hard data on that, I'm going by the bits gleaned by casual reading that I can dredge up from memory. The one thing I do know is that some of the Maoris practiced cannibalism.

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I think it's morally wrong to eat any sentient being ... granted. most humans wouldn't qualify for this protect, but you get my meaning.
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In my mind the only real moral objection to eating humans is that it is mostly going to mean that someone is going to be hurt by it, specifically the person being eaten. If that is not the case, I really see no reason why it's bad, aside from gastronomical and possible health problems.
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Prions are a bad thing.

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If I did eat human flesh, i would probably use Ketchup, not barbaque sauce.
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Re: Would you eat soceity's "forbidden fruit"?

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BlkbrryTheGreat wrote:I just saw Hannibal and I was wondering if people would actually eat human flesh if they had the chance....... you know just for fun. Also, I wanted to discuss why people think that this is morally wrong. Personally, I dont have a problem with this as long as it dosent involve murder or violation of a persons will. I'm sure that this thread brings a whole meaning to organ donation though.
Remember the movie Alive? If you were in a situation like that, and you waited until the person in question who was up for consumption had died, then.. Then it's an acceptable necessity of survival. Anything else is an obscenity.
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Edi wrote:Only if starving and there was no other option, but wouldn't kill anyone in order to do it, though. Circumstances such as those depicted in the movie Alive would qualify. In case you haven't seen it, it involved a bunch of Argentinian rugby players and some other people who were going to Chile crashlanding in the Andes and being stranded for something like two months in there before they were rescued. They had to eat their dead to stay alive. It happened sometime in the early 70s.

Oops. Should read the second page first..
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Oh, Marina the Joke about PETA folks volunteering to become food. Is just a joke, and one that's in poor taste.
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Stuart Mackey wrote:
data_link wrote:Human - the other white meat. :D
Human babies- The other,other white meat

gotta love Fat Bastard....
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Stuart Mackey wrote:
data_link wrote:Human - the other white meat. :D
Human babies- The other,other white meat

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