Reply #53: And that's pretty hypocritical, isn't it?

[Withywindle]

I agree, it's the killing that's the problem, not the eating.

After I'm dead, my body's just meat, and I feel that if I'm killed by another person, that person DAMN WELL better have been hungry, and DAMN WELL better eat me.

If cannibalism is really that much more of an instinctual taboo than murder, then maybe we should prevent homicide and war by requiring all people, under penalty of death, to eat what (I mean whom) they kill. All of it - like the Indians did, no waste.