Will you eat humans if it was allowed?!
Answers: I don't think I will eat humans even if it was allowed --it tastes bad.
This is an excellent question.
Why is it better to eat a cow than a human?
A fish?
Even a piece of celery?
If I grew up in a group of people for whom eating humans was completely normal then of course I would eat humans too.
Everyone would.
If I grew up in:
A) a group of people whom would not eat cows, I would not eat cows.
B) A group of people who would not eat celery, I would not eat celery.
Eating humans, much like any food choice is primarily dependent on ones culture and upbringing. If you are taught it is good to do and no one says differently, it is unlikely that you will question it.
There are other factors obviously that lead to cannibalism when it is not the norm.
Some people may eat people simply because it is a taboo and they are extremely anti authoritarian; or because they are simply very anti social. Aztecs ate the heart of their eneemies to gain their strength and powers.
Others may eat people when they are starving and it is a fair assessment to say most people would eat someone who was weaker or already dead in the case of grave starvation. There are plenty of cases such as the movie Survivor based on a true story of people eating their dead companions when a plane crashe landed into the Andes.
The story of Donner Pass in California is another.
In the stories of Hannibal Lecter by Stephen Harris, Hannibal takes up eating people as a result of his sister being eaten by ruthless soldiers. So an extremely traumatic event of varying nature could cause someone to be obsessed with eating humans.
If it were made legal today, I probably would not eat humans.
If it was served at McDonalds, well maybe I would then.
There are some contexts where everyone would eat humans, the most extreme being, if they didn't know what they were eating or had to eat it or be slowly tortured and eaten alive themselves. Then I think 99% of the world would eat human flesh.
There are lesser extremes where only some people (let's just make a wild guess and say 49%) would eat human flesh. Such as starvation to survive.
There are even less extreme contexts where perhaps 1 % or a fraction of a percent would eat other people. Such as, because they were curious or felt like it.
In sum, I would eat people if I was starving and they were dead and no other food was available. (maybe).
Since I dont kill animals, I would not eat any meat if it was not prepared by someone else, unless I was starving and nothing else was available.
As an aside, I watched a video about a tribe of people in Borneo (i think) who ate their dead family members as a type of ancestor worship.
Though I am not particularly interested in eating my ancestors, I do fancy being eaten by mey descendants. Not that they would want to.
Alrighty then.
And my answer is no.
i eat the wife every night, she taste good
Nah. You don't know what kind of nasty chemicals are in their feed.
Though my Uncle Ed taught me this riddle when I was a kid:
Q: What's the difference between an intellectual and a cannibal?
A: About three weeks without food.
It just seems wrong and gross. I suppose if it was going on for a long time before now and there wasn't such a stigma attached, people would do it. I don't think I ever could... Even in a life or death situation.
I have also not eaten human flesh before. So I don't know if it tastes good or bad. Even if it is allowed, I'll still stay away from it. Why eat human flesh when there are so many things else to eat?
I'll take your word on the taste. And no way would I think about trying it.
no humans do too many things to their bodies to make me want to eaat them do you have earges?
No i wouldn't eat humans. I don't eat lot of things and they are allowed. I would eat human if it was necessary to live.
How do you know it tastes bed. Have you eaten them?
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gosh noo :s
It tastes bad!? Man, it sounds bad!
Um........my concern is how you know it tastes bad. I think it is something that the majority including myself would say no chance to but if thought about in a life or death situation then maybe the answer may be different, I hope I never get to be in that situation.
I have read in various places that humans taste just like beef, if not better. No I'm not endorsing the idea. The movie/book Fried Green Tomatoes even has cannibalism in it, disguised remarkably, and the man it is specially served to said it was the best meal he ever had.
I honestly cannot imagine what would make the circumstances so dire that would allow for humans to legally be consumed by others. Where do you draw the line on what is ok to eat and murder. You want to have Jeffrey Dahmers running around but not getting caught? I don't know about anyone else but I'm not ready to die yet and I don't know how you would monitor this at all.
I don't believe that I would eat humanflesh if it was allowed. Hopefully there will still be other things to eat that aren't so controversial.
heck no. i think cannibalism is bad. if you're religious, you should not kill people just because you're hungry.