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Is cannibalism morally wrong?

Not talking about murdering someone and eating them necessarily.
There are for instance examples of two consenting adults who agree to eat and be eaten respectively.
So is cannibalism itself morally wrong?

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revenant · F

There was this German guy who advertised for a guy to be eaten.......well if 2 crazies want to do that to each other with mutual consent..up to them no ?

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@revenant

Yeah they sure did. Although i believe he was still charged with murder.

revenant · F

@MetalGreymon yep. I forgot his name. I think he would have done the same things over and over and who knows what else..

SugarPlumxo · 31-35, F

@revenant Armin Meiwes...

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@revenant

I'm sure he would have. But if people were consenting then i don't see the harm.

revenant · F

@MetalGreymon my thought too at first ! the other guy wanted to be eaten after all but who knows if he would not have done it again to an innocent person...

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@revenant

Well i must point out that, [i]that[/i] is a slippery slope fallacy.
It's just conjecture without foundation, mostly based on the fact that we find cannibalism distasteful. There's no good reason to suppose that he would move on to murder.

You and i enjoy some bacon but we're probably not going to start sneaking onto farms to steal and butcher pigs, right?

revenant · F

@MetalGreymon hmmmm...the guy was obviously crazy ! I heard that people actually get addicted to human flesh which is supposed to be very tasty but I have no intention of trying ........there was that guy in the Philippines I think who admitted to eating people and tried to stop himself. He was stealing from graves, not actually killing people.

MetalGreymon · 36-40, M

@revenant

Creepy lol. But i don't know that he was crazy. Crazy means irrational. All we know is that he wanted to do something most people don't want to do.