In a world with vast overpopulation, why is cannibalism a sin?

Question

I just watched solient green and thought it did have redeming religious values of self sacrafice for the good of all. So why does having MANWICH, have anything to do with sin?

Answer 1

Maybe it is just good sense; after all, cannibalism was the method by which kuru, a degenerative brain disease similar to Kreutzfeld-Jakob disease, was spread throughout the members of the tribes of New Guinea. After cannibalism was outlawed, kuru stopped showing up in the population. Perhaps the stigma of "sin" in this case is just good sense for the continuation of the species without the propagation of contaminants directly within the population. Sort of like it is a sin to marry your sister, but it is also good sense not to do so if you want children who are healthy...

P.S. Can you imagine how prion diseases like mad cow would run rampant in a Soylent Green scenario? Scary...

Answer 2

Hello,

Because it comes under the commandment, thou shalt not kill.

That said, under certain circumstances it is allowed and not been condemned by the main stream churches. If the others around you are dead and you are starving to death then it is permitted. The case of the Chilean soccer team that crashed in the Andes; Pilot Harte in Northern Canada or people in lifeboats at sea have always been exceptions to the rule.

Now On a Lighter Note:

Haggis

Much to his dad and mum's dismay
Horace ate himself one day
He didn't stop to say his grace
He just sat down and ate his face
"We can't have this!" his dad declared
"If that lad's ate he should be shared"
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes
"Stop him someone!" Mother cried
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late for they were gone,
And he had started on his dong...
"Oh foolish child!" the father mourned
"You could have deep-fried those with prawns,
Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
But H was on his second course;
His liver and his lights and lung,
His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue
"To think I raised him from the cot
And now he's gone to scoff the lot!"
His mother cried what shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept her son was seen
To eat his head his heart his spleen
And there he lay, a boy no more
Just a stomach on the floor...
None the less since it was his
They ate it - and that's what haggis is

From: Monty Python's Big Red Book
Published by NTC/Contemporary Publishing
Publication date: September 1980






Michael

Answer 3

Clearly you value human existence, but you have not carried that concern far enough. The idea of consuming other human beings for food forgets that they are also our brothers and sisters.

In a world that is suffering from human over-population, it's better to ask why the Catholic Church considers birth control a sin.

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Answer 4

I don't know either. I saw something about this Peruvian soccer team whose plane crashed in the Andes, and had to resort the cannibalism to survive. I think that they did the right thing in order to save their lives. If they didn't do that, wouldn't that have been suicide anyways?

Answer 5

Look. Eating other members of your species is gross. And it's the job of members of a species to create more of that species, so the species grows. Cannibalism is totally contradictory to the laws of nature ingrained in every human's brain. Besides, it's against every national and religious law I can think of. So please don't eat me.

Answer 6

it quite is unlawful at the start. And as for being a sin, i think of in case you may desire to consume the ineffective to stay, like those adult adult males in the snowy mountains years in the past, that's ok by using God. yet to kill a guy merely to consume him is a sin.

Answer 7

the people are just weird, Nuts, really Eating People..WHEN DID THAT GET FUN?

Serenity,

context , reavers, a race of super violent space canibals.

Answer 8

dont fully understand your question, but you rock dude, im truly inspired. im gonna pack up my two dobermans and my weber, go to virginia, and barbecue up me some michael vick tri-tip for me and my boys

Answer 9

Meats meat.

Answer 10

god liked blood offerings in the ot!