Cannibalism
originally written on OCT 08, 5:23 PM
So i was slacking off and continuing my morbidly-cancer-and-other-scary- diseases-developing lifestyle today…and i was wondering and reminisce all the things that i have done this last semester… Apparently, nothing so far has impressed and would stay in my memory… so i’ve decided to go blogging about some random things…. again…
And this thought strikes me…
Well i was doing my research the other day in my biochem class about a disease named “Kuru”. It’s one of the world’s rarest disease that is caused by prion and blah blah… (thank me for saving you from some boring medical jargon)… and in order for you to catch it, you have to travel to Papua New Guinea and find one of the last remaining infected person and eats his/her brain. So yea… i was wondering to write an article about Kuru… but in completely unrelated twist of thought i’ve decided to blog about some ethical issues concerning cannibalism..
Is it wrong to want to see what people taste like? I mean, I was watching Hannibal the other day and I thought to myself “I wonder what that guy’s brain tasted like.” In any case, it was probably high in protein and probably a good source of vitamins. But we’ll never know, because of “Society” and all the “Norms”.
Now, apparently, eating people is bad, and when I say “bad”, I mean it’s morally wrong. I don’t know who made morals, but that just the way it is. I mean, people eat bad food all the time. Like cheeseburgers. Those things destroy your insides. And fried food. Fried food is low in vitamins, but an excellent dietary source of death. People also drink soda pop. Now, scientists have done studies that show that soda is loaded with sugar. For example, if you were to fill a mug with Coca-Cola and drop a medium-sized rabbit into it, the rabbit would dissolve within about 4 minutes.
But cannibalism is bad for a different reason. The reason for it is because people don’t except it as a humane practice. I mean, come on. If people die, they don’t need their bodies anymore. You see where I’m going with this?
But no, it’s taboo (I love the word ‘taboo’) to even consider doing something that would defile a body, let alone eat one. But lots of intelligent animals eat their own kind, such as dogs, coyotes, pigs, rats and I think certain breeds of weasels. There are tribes of people living in South America who eat people. These tribes are fine with this. They couldn’t be happier.
Anyhow, I intended to be funny, but I need to stop writing this because I’m starting to gross myself out. Do yourself a favor and don’t consider anything I just wrote.
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