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Newsweek: Time to Rethink Taboo on Cannibalism?
breitbart.com ^
| August 22, 2019
| THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
Posted on 08/24/2019 5:01:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cannibalism; conditioning; jaredpiazza; lancasteruniversity; mediawingofthednc; neilmclatchie; newsweek; partisanmediashills; pizzagate; podesata; presstitutes; smearmachine; spiritcooking; sweetesttaboo; taboo
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To: ransomnote
There is all kinds of medical reasons not to become a cannibal...
To: Bon mots
To: ransomnote
To: ransomnote
Who the hell would want to live among people who do not have a cannibalism taboo?
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posted on
08/24/2019 7:22:08 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
08/24/2019 7:25:17 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
To: ichabod1
You nailed it!
maybe you can help write the DNC political platform
?
smile smile smile
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posted on
08/24/2019 7:36:57 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Bon mots
To: ransomnote
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posted on
08/24/2019 8:13:44 PM PDT
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
08/24/2019 8:54:39 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: ransomnote
As with most liberal ideas, I’m pragmatic and support a compromise.
Gun confiscation? I’ll meet them halfway by supporting the removal of gun rights from all liberals.
70% tax bracket? Sure, for liberals. Let’s start with Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, and go from there.
Cannibalism? Can we just feed liberals to wild animals? Islamic terrorists should be fed to pigs, specifically.
Next.
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posted on
08/24/2019 9:35:37 PM PDT
by
unlearner
(War is coming.)
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To: ransomnote
They have officially cracked up at Newsweek. This is the dumbest thing ever published by a purported news organization.
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posted on
08/24/2019 9:47:43 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: faithhopecharity
You caught that too, huh?
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posted on
08/24/2019 9:51:03 PM PDT
by
Crucial
To: ransomnote
New Cookbook....'The Joy of Cooking Humans'.
I'd think liberal won't taste that good...
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posted on
08/24/2019 10:18:35 PM PDT
by
ConservaTeen
(WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
To: Crucial
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posted on
08/24/2019 10:19:41 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
;-)
Sometimes, some of the other customers will figure that out and laugh. The host or hostess will usually be clueless.
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posted on
08/24/2019 11:09:38 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: no-to-illegals
No one would want to eat me. My wife says I'm spoiled.
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posted on
08/24/2019 11:48:09 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
Make mine split hoof and chews the cud, or fish with scales and fins, or birds that eat seeds.
I wonder about chicken though...
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posted on
08/25/2019 12:38:55 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: Roman_War_Criminal
I vaguely remember the Book of Enoch stating such.I have heard that too. 👎
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posted on
08/25/2019 3:50:05 AM PDT
by
Mark17
(Once saved, always saved. I am an Ephesians 2:8-9 kind of guy. It is a beautiful thing. Enjoy it)
To: ransomnote
No clowns though, they taste funny.
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08/25/2019 4:06:58 AM PDT
by
PTBAA
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