CANNIBALISM!!!

In many societies cannibalism is frowned upon and usually the result from participation is death. The official definition of cannibalism is the act or practice of eating members of one’s own species. (Yes this means that cannibalism exists outside the human race.) The act of cannibalism raises many ethical issues because killing a person is murder which can easily be dealt with. But when it comes to the consumption of that dead person, it is an entirely different issue because it raises questions about morality.
The reasons for the start of cannibalism are unknown but there are many theories. One is that the act puts a space or boundary between the “civilized” and “barbarian.” Though this idea only relates to one type of cannibalism. Now I know what you are thinking: “What?! There’s more that one type of cannibalism?” but before you give up on every think you think you know, let me first explain. The first type of cannibalism is Exocannibalism. This has to do with the consumption of a person outside the consumer’s social group, such as and enemy or slave. For this the killing is usually more brutal and violent, to ultimately humiliate the victim. One of the more brutal rituals for cannibalism was carried out by the Aztecs. In this they took a prisoner and brought him to an alter-like stone at the top of a temple. Here, four priests would take hold of each of the prisoner’s limbs while a fifth priest tied his head down with a chord. This was done so that he couldn’t move while the king cut open his chest and pulled out his heart (now is when the prisoner would probably be dead). The king would raise the heart high as an offering to the sun until it cooled, and then toss it away. Next the body was rolled down the steep stairs of the temple. At the bottom, old men would take the body away to be dismembered and divided so it could be eaten later.
The second type is like the opposite of exo-cannibalism. Endo-cannibalism involves eating the flesh of a person that belonged in the same social group as the consumer. This was thought to allow the consumer to absorb the characteristics of the deceased through indigestion. Or in some cases it is believed to cause regeneration after death.
The last type is survival cannibalism. This is probably one of the more commonly known and even and even the most recently documented. Obviously by the name, it occurs under circumstances of emergency to avoid starvation and death. Most recently recorded was in World War II in 1944 and even more recent, the 1970s in the Vietnam War. In WWII the Japanese troops resorted to cannibalism when food ran out. And when there where no more civilians to consume they turned to American troops and then their fellow soldiers. Lieutenant George H. W. Bush was able to escape the fate of being eaten along with four others when he was rescued by a U.S. submarine after his plane was gunned down. Cannibalism is usually a last resort in of life or death, due to our natural instincts of self-preservation.
But whet does this do to the human body? Does it actually effects?
The answer is technically no, there aren’t any known diseases that are caused be cannibalism. But it is believed that some neurological disorders such as Kuru and CJD can be a result of consuming human flesh.
So tell me…Would you rather have your human grilled or fried?

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