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thicc-astronaut · 8 months ago

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Every article I read online about cannibalism opens with like three paragraphs to the tune of "eating other humans, of course, instinctually causes intense feelings of disgust for all of us Westerners" and I just. Don't get it. It doesn't strike me as disgusting.

Murder is bad, obviously. I wouldn't support killing someone to eat them. But if the person is already dead, then why not? Humans are animals. Animals are made of meat. If you don't eat them, something else will. Earthworms or maggots or fungus or something. That's the food web, baby. Nutrients keep flowing.

And I'm saying this as an American, mind you. I grew up in and still live in a culture where cannibalism is only seen in horror films, and in tales of absolute desperation like the Donner Party. I should be frightened by cannibalism, I should find it disgusting, I should share the cultural zeitgeist that Man is the one type of animal that it is a sin to eat.

Is there something wrong with me? Am I abnormal? It really feels like something that I should be disgusted by, but I'm not.

#tw cannibalism #textpost #personal rant #i've been thinking about this all day and I just don't know man. I don't know anything #Like Kuru is a thing but it's mostly spread by eating neural tissue #and us Westerners don't eat much brains anyways so I don't think it'd end up being an issue #oh and every online article about cannibalism HAS to mention the Fore people of Papua New Guinea and their kuru epidemic #which is mentioned only to paradoxically show both that Cannibalism Can Be Sacred Actually but also God Gives Plagues To Cannibals #I'm a Catholic btw we believe that we literally consume the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ who was a true man at Mass #but the Catholic Church also maintains that this is NOT cannibalism haha no don't be silly guys haha cannibalism is gross and this is holy #why is cannibalism not allowed to be sacred? We are literally eating the guy it's the holiest part of the service but it's “not cannibalism #give me a break. We got the crucifix up there on the altar showing Jesus with the spear wound and the nails and the thorns #and all that blood and gore is okay but we can't call the eating of his flesh cannibalism? Is that too gross?#long tags

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