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BlueVeins · 22-25
I feel like eating your enemies to degrade them invites prions as a form of cosmic justice, whereas eating your family to honor them does not. That said, cosmic justice doesn't really exist, and the peoples most prone to prion infections have been indigenous tribes that ate family members to honor them.
BlueVeins · 22-25
@LordShadowfire To my understanding, they're only likely to show up after generations of cannibalism, and there's virtually no likelihood of getting them just from eating a non-cannibal's flesh. I'm mostly being facetious.
LordShadowfire · 100+, M
@BlueVeins Unless you eat the brain. Then you're pretty much screwed.
BlueVeins · 22-25
@LordShadowfire Are you? Prions are really rare in the brain under normal circumstances as a consequence of the fact that they don't spread much. To my understanding, the only way a non-cannibal will have it is if the proteins in their brain randomly misfold into a self-replicating configuration (which eventually will kill them).
LordShadowfire · 100+, M
@BlueVeins Wow. I've apparently been grossly misinformed. Thank you.
BlueVeins · 22-25
@LordShadowfire I think it's been kinda sensationalized as a consequence of kuru, but imo the statistical explanation is way creepier and more interesting. Prions are one of those things where it's almost never sensible to stress about them, but which represent such an otherworldly and violent danger when it does manifest.