Newsweek: Time to Rethink Taboo on Cannibalism?

breitbart.com ^ | August 22, 2019 | THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.

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Since cannibalism is found throughout the animal kingdom and therefore is something natural, perhaps it is time for humans to rethink the “ultimate taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday.

There is nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable about eating human flesh, declare psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University, but careful reasoning over the merits of cannibalism is often “overridden by our feelings of repulsion and disgust.”

While not going so far as to recommend cannibalism, saying “there is no need to overcome our repulsion for the foreseeable future,” the two authors suggest that humans could master their aversion for human flesh if they needed to.

“Many people develop disgust for all kinds of meat, while morticians and surgeons quickly adapt to the initially difficult experience of handling dead bodies,” they note. “Our ongoing research with butchers in England suggests that they easily adapt to working with animal parts that the average consumer finds quite disgusting.”

Moreover, the psychological revulsion experienced over the prospect of consuming human flesh is not the product of reason and may even contradict reason, they argue in Wednesday’s article, which originally appeared last week in The Conversation.

“Survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash waited until near starvation before succumbing to reason and eating those who had already died,” they propose.

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Seems like "someone(s)" out there is trying to condition the public to accept the unacceptable before "news" of some kind comes out.

[BipolarBob]

Soylent Green is people!!!

[TomGuy]

Dogs will eat their own v***t and s**t.

Just because THEY do does not mean WE should.

[Dr. Sivana]

This is a good time to post the one hit record by "The Buoys", written by Rupert Holmes, who also wrote "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" and "Him" (lessons in pronouns).

Timothy

[SecondAmendment]

Prepping the public for when its revealed that environmentalists recommend cannibalism to save the planet ...

[Husker24]

No, I don’t think we need to rethink it. Im good.

[no-to-illegals]

I’ll confess .... I’ve been known to nibble on better half .....

[leaning conservative]

I think I’ll eat my neighbors tomorrow.....are you kidding me with this?

[null and void]

I love it when liberals eat their own...

[no-to-illegals]

My own tastes good !!!!

[The_Media_never_lie]

All cultures are equal, don’t you know!

[no-to-illegals]

Pardon me nully my better half does taste good

[BulletBobCo]

I guess it’s time to stock up on fava beans and a nice chianti.

[Right Wing Assault]

Newsweek trying to increase its circulation. From one hundred to 150.

[Dogbert41]

Why not? China probably already does this in one form or another. Probably sells them to us as pork products.

[Salman]

They've just about "normalized" pedophilia, if not quite legalized it.

So this what's next.

[Carl Vehse]

Planned Parenthood will be working to change the definition of "baby food."

[left that other site]

The Last Taboo

[rdcbn]

WTF?

[MV=PY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqDu5LBT8_Y&app=desktop&persist_app=1