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What is your attitude towards cannibals?

Asked by Gifted_With_Languages (1143points) August 29th, 2013

Well I don’t know any personally, but I would assume fearful.

What are your inner thoughts?

How would you rate it overall?

You tell me.

Thanks awfully.

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rojo's avatar

Truthfully, I have never given it much thought.

From anthro classes back in college I have a basic understanding of the why and as they explain it was either a situation which somehow created a lack of food (think crashed plane in the Andes or severe drought as in the New Mexico/Colorado area inhabited by the Anisazi) or, more commonly, a sort of religious undertaking where the positive attributes of the “eatee” were absorbed by the “eater”.

From a personal perspective, meat IS meat.

CWOTUS's avatar

I take them with a grain of salt.

And a side of fava beans.

augustlan's avatar

Depends on why they’re cannibals. If they’re eating their already-dead fellows to avoid starvation, well…that’s icky, but supportable.

If they’re serial killers who get off on eating their victims, then, um, NO.
If they’re doing it for religious purposes, ditto.

ucme's avatar

Meh, bite me!
Dwelling on stuff like that can eat away at you.

Pachy's avatar

Eat ‘em or leave ‘em.

elbanditoroso's avatar

I’d give an arm and a leg to find out.

poisonedantidote's avatar

Passive Aggressive.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I don’t respond to their dinner party invitations.

zenvelo's avatar

I’m not too inclined to go over for a barbecue. But it is called “long pork”, I guess it goes well with beans or applesauce.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

The cannibal queen was lounging on her bed and she had a longing and summoned her servant, told him what she wanted, and sent him off. He came back a little later with a shrunken head. She looked at him and sighed. “Honey that wasn’t what I meant when I said I wanted a little head.” Hey it’s Friday.

mrentropy's avatar

As long as they don’t serve clown; they taste funny.

gailcalled's avatar

Eat my shorts.

Sunny2's avatar

The only ones I met (in Borneo) were cheerful and friendly. Since the practice is now banned, I wonder if they miss it. Now there’s somebody I could ask how we taste. Too bad I didn’t speak the language.

tups's avatar

Q: What does the cannibal get when he is late for dinner?
A: A cold shoulder.

zenvelo's avatar

The University of Colorado – Boulder has the “Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill” with the slogan “Have a friend for lunch!”.

gondwanalon's avatar

Waste not, want not.

Pooh54's avatar

I don’t know any but hope they are eating the bad people of the world.

elbanditoroso's avatar

Stories about cannibals are really hard to digest.

zenvelo's avatar

There is something a bit disconcerting about cannibals, but I can’t quite put a finger on it.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Remember the movie with Denzel? If you eat too much human meat you get the shakes like a palsy. Clue #1.

Probably tastes like chicken.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

What do they serve for hors d oeuvres? Or finger foods?

Dutchess_III's avatar

You don’t know any personally? What’s wrong with you?! They’re all over the place! Some of my best friends are cannibals.

All I know about cannibals, from what I understand they didn’t eat humans for dinner. Cannibalism was stylized and ritualistic, and involved eating only the heart of a conquered warrior.
To that end, I’m not the least bit worried. I’m not a warrior.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give them a 10.

There. I’ve spilled my guts, given you my most inner thoughts on cannibals.

Coloma's avatar

Just “victims” of their culture. haha
I traveled in asia a few years ago and the native peoples of Taiwans Toroko Gorge area were cannibals until a mere 100 years ago. Asias culture has a lot of cannibalism in it’s history, even now in some remote areas.

drhat77's avatar

In surgery they frequently use electric cautery to stop bleeding. The smells that waft up from that are EXACTLY like barbeque. In a long surgery, that could make you mighty hungry.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@Coloma I thought that bbq ‘dried squid’ tasted funny with my beer lol, flesh-colored, too.

johnpowell's avatar

I read that as Cannabis.

I have nothing to add once I learned this is about cannibals.

zenvelo's avatar

@KNOWITALL Human flesh tastes like pork.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Fried Green Tomatoes

KNOWITALL's avatar

@zenvelo It creeps me out that you post that with no qualifiers…lol

jonsblond's avatar

What one does in the privacy of their own home should not be a concern to anyone else, and it shouldn’t be grounds for firing someone if they test positive.

I also read that as cannabis.

CWOTUS's avatar

I knew what you had done there before I even clicked the link, @augustlan.

ucme's avatar

Bow, now, now, now…ooh, ooh.

augustlan's avatar

Ah, the 80s.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

We should legalize cannibalism
and cannibals are pretty badass

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