Honey, I ate the kids!

[Dorsum Oppel]

Cannibalism. So, it's late at night, I'm in one my loopy as shit moods, and I find a hang nail. I bite it off, and notice a peculiarly appetizing salty taste. With some basil and garlic, I could be fucking delicious. But it arose the question, would I ever eat a human?

I'm undecided on my views of it so far. Considering that I eat aminal meats: In order to answer this, I'd have to prioritize what I consider to be of greater sentiment, humans or animals. Which is hard for me.

LET THE DISCUSSION BEGIN.

One a side note.
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( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsQRZ4TsljI )

TODD:
For what's the sound of the world out there?

LOVETT:
What, Mr. Todd?
What, Mr. Todd?
What is that sound?

TODD:
Those crunching noises pervading the air!

LOVETT:
Yes, Mr. Todd!
Yes, Mr. Todd!
Yes, all around!

TODD:
It's man devouring man, my dear!

BOTH:
And who are we to deny it in here?

[Magus]

I haven't particularly tasted human flesh, so I can't say for sure.

But as far as Cannibalism considered, there are a lot of things surrounds this mystery. I am only going to cover few of them briefly.

Cannibalism for Survival:

People eat their own flesh, or others flesh in order to survive. When a man stranded in an isolated place where there is no food, men will fight for survival. This will lead to two things. Survival of the fittest, and share body.

*Share Body: Okay, I just made up this word. This is when people will help out each other. Meaning, they will cut their limbs and give out the other people, whilst other people do the same.

*Survival of the fittest: Last man standing; this where people fight for each other's body, they will fight till death.

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The other is.

Warrior Carnage: Again, a word just made up. But this was some kind of ritual back then. Primarily practised all over the world. Warriors eat up the viscera of their deceased rivals.

Flesh of the foreign: This was common; people ate up foreign people(Usually the white people became the victims).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Cannibals.23232.jpg

Mental: Some people murder random people or even their loved ones, and end up eating their flesh. What more there to say other than this is the most ill-famed form of Murder and Cannibalism.

[Skeln]

Depends on the situation, I suppose. Just for the heck of it...um...yeah I would probably dissaprove because someone might develope a serious liking for the food. I think the good taste you tasted did not come from by itself, it was probably from something else you were eating earlier. I chew on my nails all the time and they don't taste too great.

[Jess]

I wouldn't eat humans.....I would only eat animals....I saw a video....never mind I don't want to talk about this video. it was creepy

[Dorsum Oppel]

I wouldn't eat humans.....I would only eat animals....I saw a video....never mind I don't want to talk about this video. it was creepy

Why not?

[Triceratops]

I've always found cannibalism really intriguing.
I like the taste of my own blood; but that isn't the same. When my self-harming was at it's worst peak, I've always thought of slicing off parts of my flesh and tasting it. Although I'm aware that's a completely idiotic thing to do to myself, I still remain very curious.

I guess I'm reluctant to try it, because cannibalism is something I associate with psychopathy. The majority of cannibals don't realize what they're doing is wrong, since some use it as a method for survival. I wouldn't mark cannibalism as something that's immoral and inhumane, unless the supposed cannibal has gone out of their way to brutally kill another human being for the purpose of eating it. Furthermore, if they feast upon a human that's already dead, then I see it differently, because they can't view this as wrong behaviour.

[huginnmuninn]

I wouldn't eat humans.....I would only eat animals....I saw a video....never mind I don't want to talk about this video. it was creepy

humans are animals but i would never murder for the flesh of a fellow human but if it was an already dead carcass and i was starving maybe

[Zephyr]

Weird. I was just reading on the subject a couple weeks ago.

Of course there's Jeffrey Dahmer, everybody knows about him.

Here are some interesting people to look up that you may or may not have heard of: Issei Sagawa, Ed Gein and Albert Fish

I highly suggest reading up on Albert Fish, especially his letters to him victim's families and his history with SI, very interesting stuff.

Cannibalism is outside of the spectrum of 'normal' human behavior, but I can obviously see it done in a survival setting such as the soccer team who crashed in the Andes Mountains, or in the case of the whaling ship Essex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)). Now, self-cannibalism is another thing: under this, nailbiting and biting off the dead skin around your fingernails are under this category, so it's more commonplace. The behavior is a force of habit, so of course it's not intentional.

I do have to say, due to it being such a taboo topic, it does make me curious. I mean, of course I'm not going to go out and slaughter somebody just because I'm curious, I hold my own species at a higher level since I'm more emotionally connected with them and the thought of it makes me sick just thinking about it. I just wouldn't have it in me to actually try it unless my life depended on it. Nonetheless, the thought of what it would be like has crossed my mind.

Also, like Marcie, when my SIing was at it's worst back when I was 14, sometimes I would just get the urge to hack something off, gouge an eye out or something just to try. And of course, it is an idiotic thought process, but it still occured.

I do think it's wrong unless it's an issue of survival, because it is a human being that we're talking about here. Imagine if somebody decided that they were going to pick you up and eat you just because they were curious. It would be horrifying, death is forever and you died for what? For somebody who just wanted to try eating human flesh; And depending on the methods of your murderer, it could possibly be a slow and painful death.

WARNING: Graphic photo content from crime scenes, do not open if you don't want to see gore.

Personally, I wouldn't want to end up like this or see somebody end up like what these photos portray from real life accounts:

Issei Sagawa Victim (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/sagawascene2.jpg)

Jeffrey Dahmer Victim (http://www.members.tripod.com/~VanessaWest/dahmer2.jpg)

Ed Gein Victim (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/gein1.jpg)

The real world is a nasty place, yes, it's inevitable. But I'm not going to add to the horrors that are already out there. All in all, cannibalism is something that I would rather just let the mind wonder about than to experience.

[Magus]

Jeffrey Dahmer Victim (http://www.members.tripod.com/~VanessaWest/dahmer2.jpg)

The real world is a nasty place, yes, it's inevitable. But I'm not going to add to the horrors that are already out there. All in all, cannibalism is something that I would rather just let the mind wonder about than to experience.

Those are beautiful example of Mental and Warrior Carnage form of Cannibalism I stated in the first response.

Unfortunately, only the middle link of image has made an appearance. Kids, that's called evisceration of the human body.

[Dorsum Oppel]

I do think it's wrong unless it's an issue of survival, because it is a human being that we're talking about here. Imagine if somebody decided that they were going to pick you up and eat you just because they were curious. It would be horrifying, death is forever and you died for what? For somebody who just wanted to try eating human flesh; And depending on the methods of your murderer, it could possibly be a slow and painful death.



You mean exactly how an animal feels as they are slaughtered? I don't think you're a vegetarian. Even if you are, millions of animal lives are claimed to make your daily life comfortable. What's one more being?

[Skeln]

What's one more being?

Whether you actually think this or not, it's still going to upset and seriously anger ALOT of people. I mean, if there are those who are so opposed to abortion that they will sometimes kill others just to "exact revenge", think about what they'll do to people who are eating others who have already been born. It's just not going to be accepted by anyone unless under severe circumstances.

[Jess]

Issei Sagawa Victim (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/sagawascene2.jpg)

Jeffrey Dahmer Victim (http://www.members.tripod.com/~VanessaWest/dahmer2.jpg)

Ed Gein Victim (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/gein1.jpg)

The real world is a nasty place, yes, it's inevitable. But I'm not going to add to the horrors that are already out there. All in all, cannibalism is something that I would rather just let the mind wonder about than to experience.


o_o those pictures creeped me out.....O_O

[The Dark Lord]

humans and animals are equal so I wouldn't eat a human.

[Zephyr]

You mean exactly how an animal feels as they are slaughtered? I don't think you're a vegetarian. Even if you are, millions of animal lives are claimed to make your daily life comfortable. What's one more being?

As I said, I have much more emotional investment in humans, I feel sad whenever I hear of somebody somewhere dying because I know how it effects the people around them. The more you relate to someone or something, the less likely you are to harm it because it would be a loss for you, or on another scale, a loss for a bunch of other people that you don't even know. You're more likely to spare your own kind over another. We're a self-serving race, no matter who you are or how "I'm holier than thou art" you claim to be, in the end, the majority of people are going to be self-serving and fail to think about the repercussions of what animals go through in a slaughter house, especially with the, "It doesn't effect me" attitude.