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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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Seems like "someone(s)" out there is trying to condition the public to accept the unacceptable before "news" of some kind comes out.
To: ransomnote
Soylent Green is people!!!
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:03:08 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
To: ransomnote
Dogs will eat their own v***t and s**t.
Just because THEY do does not mean WE should.
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:03:37 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: ransomnote
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
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:04:20 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
To: ransomnote
Prepping the public for when its revealed that environmentalists recommend cannibalism to save the planet ...
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:04:37 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
To: ransomnote
No, I don’t think we need to rethink it. Im good.
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:04:40 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: ransomnote
Ill confess .... Ive been known to nibble on better half .....
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:05:36 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: ransomnote
I think I’ll eat my neighbors tomorrow.....are you kidding me with this?
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:06:02 PM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: ransomnote
I love it when liberals eat their own...
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:06:16 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:07:05 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: ransomnote
All cultures are equal, don’t you know!
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:07:14 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
To: null and void
Pardon me nully my better half does taste good
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:09:02 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
To: ransomnote
I guess it’s time to stock up on fava beans and a nice chianti.
To: ransomnote
Newsweek trying to increase its circulation. From one hundred to 150.
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:10:25 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
To: ransomnote
Why not? China probably already does this in one form or another. Probably sells them to us as pork products.
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:10:29 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
To: ransomnote
They've just about "normalized" pedophilia, if not quite legalized it.
So this what's next.
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:11:15 PM PDT
by
Salman
(The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
To: ransomnote
Planned Parenthood will be working to change the definition of "baby food."
To: ransomnote
The Last Taboo
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:11:44 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:12:01 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
( Referentia)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
08/24/2019 5:12:37 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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