<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 March 2012 02:28, The Avantguardian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avantguardian2020@yahoo.com">avantguardian2020@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So society deems cannibalism acceptable under duress but evil when at leisure.<br></blockquote><div><br>Actually, in anthropological terms, several societies admit or encorage cannibalism, but almost invariably it has therein a ritual and symbolic, rather than nutritional, purpose. <br>
<br>As mentioned another time, in fact, to eat members of your own species is a good idea only inasmuch as their meat is perfectly sterile or you do not have any other choice.<br><br>OTOH, I am not aware that widespread ethical systems have much to say on the subject unless you do that deliberately in order to express contempt for the deceased, to desecrate his or her corpse, etc.<br>
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It does not defy my intuition at all. People don't achieve status by being nice, they achieve status two ways: by being ruthless or by inheriting it from somebody who was. </blockquote><div><br>Mmhhh. Sociability and popularity and empathy and ability to cooperate in the group's shared interests against other groups may actually be a part of the cocktail - unless and until they do not detract to other more important factors. :-)<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>