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Mis-conceptions towards others:Discussed, clarified & put to rest

Discussion in 'Debates' started by Cahos Rahne Veloza, May 23, 2008.

  1. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    hardly, they're already dead before they get eaten.
     
  2. clyffe28

    clyffe28 Well-Known Member

    ofcourse they're dead but they still are human beings
     
  3. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    and unlike some creatures that the chinese eat, humans aren't endangered. Why is it OK to eat tigers, which are almost extinct, and not OK to eat humans, when there's so many of the the world is creaking under the strain?
     
  4. clyffe28

    clyffe28 Well-Known Member

    Tigers eat humans = just natural

    humans eat tigers = natural also

    tigers eat tigers = not natural

    humans eat humans = cannibalism, insanity
     
  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    Wrong and wrong. humans are not natural prey for tigers, and tigers are not natural food for humans.
     
  6. clyffe28

    clyffe28 Well-Known Member

    then why would lions get extinct when it is not normal?
     
  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you mean tigers. They get extinct because people kill them for sport, fur and meat, or groundless beliefs. China has already hunted one of their two subspecies of tiger to extinction, thanks in no small part to chairman Mao, who declared them pests and had them wiped out. the problem is not tigers randomly attacking humans, but humans enroaching onto tiger's territory. China's complete lack of effective population control and disregard for the natural environment compounds the situation.
     
  8. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    Royalty as a sort of celebrity, but having little or no power? That's comforting in a way, but that Prince William is something alright, putting first public service above his own, that's so Chivalric, ofcourse a lot of people nowadays think that chivalry is dead & people who still adhere to it are Romantics (the Philosophical meaning of it, that is)

    As for eating anything not usually eaten, yes hunger & poverty can drive people to eat anything. There was this documentary where people ate tree worms & house/sewer rats (field mice, the ones found in rice paddies are "clean" & edible, in a way) because they had no money to buy "regular" food, so they make do. Also, some eat meat that is tainted, or "double dead" (meat from livestock that died from sickness, but was still butchered & sold at market, this is against the law though), or meat that had gone stale, or the most disgusting of all, food from dustbins or left over food from fast foods & restaurants! :p

    As for that ditti from Japan, that's totally insane, the one from India is something based on their faith, but I think they only eat the ashes & they mix it & some of the dead person's blood onto a meal/dish of some sort.
     
  9. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    It was Prince Harry that put his public service first, however his elder brother William is like minded, although less prone to going binge drinking.
     
  10. ultra

    ultra Guest

    tigers do eat tigers. when a tiger mom can't get anything to eat, it will eat it's own child.
     
  11. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    I think Monarchy is the best way to go, because the King/Queen have to care about the country, as if the country were his/her own family, and you ahve to mak respectable decisions that everyone can follow, and still be in order, and act as the head, but the people alse need to respect you also.
     
  12. sla03rs

    sla03rs Well-Known Member

    nah they injest flesh as well, it was on nat geo

    not really most monarchies become corrupt in the long run which leads to a revolt that either kills the whole royal family or strips them of their power over people :p that's why there aren't really any pure monarchy ruled states anymore
     
  13. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    Ever watched the one where they leave their dead on a secred mountain & let the vultures & other wild animals eat the corpses? Now that's unique, they're not disrespecting the dead ofcourse, it's just part of their culture
     
  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    There have also been documented instances of humans eating other humans to stay alive.
     
  15. clyffe28

    clyffe28 Well-Known Member

    well, it states here that the people eat foetus for dinner, is that an instinct of survival I prefer to plant kamote (sweet potatoes ) in my backyard or maybe throw a sayote in a piece of land so when they grow I would have something to eat

    http://www.geocities.com/orthopapism/anthropophagy3.html
     
  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, it is a cultural trait, just like eating tigers is.
     
  17. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    @clyffe: Sayote (pronounced Sah - Yo -Teh), in English is Mirlitons

    @loony: Or like The Inuits (I hope I spelled it correctly) eating seal meat or us (Filipinos) eating dog meat, something unique to one's culture
     
  18. sla03rs

    sla03rs Well-Known Member

    dog meat isn't unique china has dog farms for that purpose
     
  19. kamage

    kamage Well-Known Member

    for example:Discovery Channel :)
     
  20. Cahos Rahne Veloza

    Cahos Rahne Veloza The Fart Awakens

    There's a tribe in Papua New Guinea who are admitted Cannibals & here in the Philippines, somewhere on the Visayas Islands are tribes who are also, Cannibals, they go to Manila & lure unsuspecting people to go on a vacation in their province, only to be served as a main dish on an annual Cannibalistic Cultural event :eek: