I am reminded of a conversation that I had with your husband about conditioned responses to societal taboos, that was sparked off by a mention of 'Stranger in a Strange Land.'
This site did (most emphatically) not make me queasy, not in the slightest. I found it incredibly entertaining and I am glad you shared it.
No, I am not a closet cannibal and have no intention of trying to ingest human flesh. It's not because society and government tell me it's wrong to do so. I see no real solid reason behind the injunction against consuming our own, other than we're terribly unhealthy creatures. I'd stop eating hormone-injected cow flesh, if it wasn't so damn tasty.
Anyway, in theory, I see nothing wrong with cannibalism. On a lot of levels, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than filling a corpse up with chemicals, tossing it in a lead-lined coffin, and keeping it under six feet of dirt, so it can rot away in a box, without even contributing to the soil....
That being said, I feel guilty enough about eating lesser creatures, sometimes. I also tend to avoid a lot of watery animals, since they live in our horribly polluted oceans and store up a lot of heavy metals in their flesh, which I don't want hanging around in mine, later.
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This site did (most emphatically) not make me queasy, not in the slightest. I found it incredibly entertaining and I am glad you shared it.
No, I am not a closet cannibal and have no intention of trying to ingest human flesh. It's not because society and government tell me it's wrong to do so. I see no real solid reason behind the injunction against consuming our own, other than we're terribly unhealthy creatures. I'd stop eating hormone-injected cow flesh, if it wasn't so damn tasty.
Anyway, in theory, I see nothing wrong with cannibalism. On a lot of levels, it makes a hell of a lot more sense than filling a corpse up with chemicals, tossing it in a lead-lined coffin, and keeping it under six feet of dirt, so it can rot away in a box, without even contributing to the soil....
That being said, I feel guilty enough about eating lesser creatures, sometimes. I also tend to avoid a lot of watery animals, since they live in our horribly polluted oceans and store up a lot of heavy metals in their flesh, which I don't want hanging around in mine, later.