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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: ransomnote

Adultery, fornication, sodomy have been de-deviated so far and polyamory, pedophilia, and bestiality are coming up soon for “progressive” approval.

We are learning that those are all activities which the godless global “elite” have long favored.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised when it turns out they practice cannibalism as well.


21 posted on 08/24/2019 5:12:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote

So eating cows is evil but eating people is good, eh?


22 posted on 08/24/2019 5:12:57 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

That does indeed sound like an example of liberal “logic”


23 posted on 08/24/2019 5:13:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

THere is a Cannibal Club in Los Angeles (website is .org) that prepares and serves human flesh. They say it’s legal. THey brag that they serve celebrities. *shudder*


24 posted on 08/24/2019 5:14:08 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

And there goes the colloquialism “Bite Me”

Seriously, this is an early trial balloon by the EnviroTards. Same way they started in on normalizing pedos.
Have they started their campaign to normalize incest?


25 posted on 08/24/2019 5:14:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ransomnote

Long pig.


26 posted on 08/24/2019 5:14:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: ransomnote

Since it is primarily non-whites who practice cannibalism, liberals will soon declare the ban on cannibalism to be racist.


27 posted on 08/24/2019 5:14:57 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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To: ransomnote

Nice to see they’re thinking that people should eat ‘meat’, even if it’s human. That’s what us Low Carb / Keto people have been saying for years now - although obviously not human meat.

However, I think there motive is more sinister. Basically, they think they kill off two birds with one stone here. You kill humans and and feed their bodies to other humans. That way the ‘chosen’ humans the ‘meat’ they need, but you need far fewer livestock animals on the planet to feed them, thereby ending cow farting, and thus ending Global Warming.

One thing though, the timing...they’re starting to squeeze together their agenda items. I would have expected them to finish getting pedophilia legalized before taking this next, logical, step (for them).


28 posted on 08/24/2019 5:15:23 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: ransomnote
Seems like "someone(s)" out there is trying to condition the public to accept the unacceptable before "news" of some kind comes out.

+1

Exactly what was going on at Epstein's island?

29 posted on 08/24/2019 5:16:15 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: null and void
I love it when liberals eat their own...

I would be in favor of this as long as it was limited to liberals eating liberals.

30 posted on 08/24/2019 5:16:47 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: ransomnote

Does this mean better halves cannot nibble each other ???


31 posted on 08/24/2019 5:16:51 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: ransomnote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
Already been done


32 posted on 08/24/2019 5:17:24 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: ransomnote

Liberalism is a mental illness.


33 posted on 08/24/2019 5:19:54 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: ransomnote

The occurrence in the Andes involved rugby players, though, so no one was surprised.

[Restaurant scene] “Table of four, for the Donner party.”


34 posted on 08/24/2019 5:19:56 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ClearCase_guy

We know what was going on at epstein island. It wasn’t spouses nibbling each other


35 posted on 08/24/2019 5:20:08 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: no-to-illegals

Nibble, don’t chew


36 posted on 08/24/2019 5:20:45 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: ransomnote

Soros advances by increments.

This is the latest.


37 posted on 08/24/2019 5:21:15 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: ransomnote
Seems like "someone(s)" out there is trying to condition the public to accept the unacceptable before "news" of some kind comes out.


38 posted on 08/24/2019 5:21:22 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: no-to-illegals
Too much info, dude.

While I'm at it, Jared and Neil are working hard to put the psycho back in psychology.

39 posted on 08/24/2019 5:22:15 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: HangnJudge

A slurp is good too


40 posted on 08/24/2019 5:22:24 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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