Well, if you're referring to ritual cannibalism, it doesn't bother me too much because I'm not the person eating the dead man's foreskin. However if you are referring to Jeffery Dahmer or Hannibal Lector type cannibilism, it's beyond heinous.
On a completely different topic, did I tell you the UU down in Norfolk has asked me to be their auctioneer this Saturday. Yeah, it is their biggest money maker of the year, and these people have been like family to me. No pressure. NKOTFB!!!
In the hospital waiting for emergency surgery, the person in the next bed told about meeting up with a canabal from Borneo. The speaker was a very wealthy scialite who was best freind to the woman inheriting the I Magnin fortune. (That was an elite high end department store in CA.
The friend met, fell in love with, and promised to marry the cannabal who happened to be royalty. He said he needed to return home to settle pressing matters of state before the wedding.
To surprise him, my hosipal room mate and her friend traveled to Borneo but weren't admitted to the palace. However, they were able to find this guy at an excusive resort where they stayed. As it turns out, he was bussing tables and she decided she couldn't love a busboy.
The conversation in the hospital room was LOUD with only a flimsy partial curtain to block it. Midway in the story, someone from that family came to my bedside and spoke harshly to my husband claiming we were evesdropping and intimating that we were not up to their high social standards of wealth and standing. LOL
Luckily, I was rolled away to surgery and it went well. Is it better to have inherited money, name, and arrogance or be smart enough not to marry a lying busboy?
If I was on a rugby team and crashed into the Andes, I would have no issue at all with eating human muscle.
The hardest part would be eating human flesh of a friend of mine. But if it was a pilot or someone else I didn't really know, or someone I didn't like, I would have no issue at all.
1) You have to kill someone first, which is murder 2) It is so easy to transmit disease between humans that way.
I think #2 is the real reason we have an aversion to cannibalism. If you eat someone with AIDS, Hepatitis, or some other pathogen in their blood, you will likely get that same disease as well. Consuming blood is probably the fastest way to spread infection.
We can get diseases from eating animals, but chickens and cows have different diseases than us.