Simple Philosophy

[MishkaL1138]

As the proud owner of a Klyros-eating Enkidukai, I agree with the cannibalism.

* Levai  eats Travosh and then gets sick due to the sour Klyros

Nah, just kidding. I for one, wouldn't be able to eat human meat. Just… no. Also, I heard you can get mad and that it's too salty.

[Sarras Volcae]

you can't go mad from eating human flesh. that's a myth to discourage cannibalism. and it's not too salty. kinda tastes like pork. some say veal, but it's always been pork in my experience.

[Mekora]

Apparently it does taste like pork. According to a fishing show when they tried to catch piranhas they used pork because it tasted most like human flesh. >.>

And @Gilrond That's not the idea of it, I just said that as a side story.

[Knightspark9]

... Didn't know there were cannibals who played this game.

[Geceni]

you can't go mad from eating human flesh. that's a myth to discourage cannibalism. and it's not too salty. kinda tastes like pork. some say veal, but it's always been pork in my experience.

In your experience???  I'm afraid to ask what that means...

[Sangwa]

Maybe they used pork because piranhas like pork. That's not as half a good story as what you told is, though.

[verden]

Kuru or laughing sickness is not a myth, it is a very, very similar to Mad Cow disease but in humans. Cannibalism engenders diseases. No species should eat of, or be fed of its own species.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

[Sangwa]

That is not true. Insects eat their own and they don't seem to mind it.

[Knightspark9]

That is not true. Insects eat their own and they don't seem to mind it.

Insects and humans are.... Different. Very different.

[Sangwa]

No species should eat of, or be fed of its own species.

Pay attention bro.

[bilbous]

I chew callouses, peeling skin and the fleshy buildup at the sides of my fingernails, doesn't everybody?
According to my grandfather who spent some time with his missionary sister and brother-in-law in Papua / New Guinea around 1910, the natives there called human meat "long pork."

[Catlemur]

If anyone has interesting info like this by bilbous edit the wikipedia.

[Toltha]

In my opinion those who believe in God should well know that God is the only one having the right to take someone's life (and only God, not humans who claim to speak on his behalf) and those who do not believe in any God should well know that this right isn't owned by anyone.
So I do not think the point is that 3 people have eaten the boy, the point is that they killed him.
So, for me, the question is quite simple: no one should think to be allowed to kill anyone.
[clarification for Sarras: what's writed up here is my answer to the question 'Was this right?'... I think that was wrong and this has nothing to do with religion or religion in courts... by the way I think right places for religion are churches or temples... not courts]
So, of course, in this case I don't think the degree of necessity exonerate the 3 sailors from guilt (that could have been different if the boy was tryin' to kill them and they had killed him trying to save their life... but that's not what happened).
[clarification for Sarras: THIS is my answer about the trial]
Furthermore, from what I remember, it is quite dangerous to start thinking that the weak, or sick, or the 'different' is less important than the healthy or the 'normal'.
So the additional details do not change what I have said so far.

[Sarras Volcae]

religion in the court? rewind a thousand years. hooray.

[Gilrond]

Furthermore, from what I remember, it is quite dangerous to start thinking that the weak, or sick, or the 'different' is less important than the healthy or the 'normal'.

+1. That kind of thinking is in line with Nazism.