I have no problem with trying to protect my family (tribe.) I agree completely about the Inquisition, and I often feel that the invasion of the Americas by the Spaniards was genocide. Period.
But I don’t like the idea of eating my enemies.
Cannibalism appears to have been practiced just about everywhere-there is evidence of it found from as recently as the Neolithic in Europe and Britain-and much later in other places. I’m sure the motivation for that varied from p[lace to place, and wasn’t usually hunger, like the Donner party-revenge, to inspire terror, honor some deity, to consume the strength/courage of he who was the main course-whatever-it is still creepy and ghoulish...