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To: cosmicforce who wrote (840)	1/13/2001 4:54:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I was so grossed out by this when I was ten I had a hard time swallowing the communion wafer. I had the same reaction when I was a kid. Yech! I know that the term "cannibalism" means eating any human flesh and there's a stigma attached to all forms. But it seems to me that there's a big difference between chewing and swallowing one's cuticles and hunting humans for food, to define both ends of the scale. The ancient tabu against cannibalism is pretty straight forward--human flesh. Tabus don't work if there's a lot of subtlety. But I can draw a bright line between eating dead or symbolic flesh on one hand and killing humans with the intent of eating them. I gag at the thought of eating dead relatives or plane crash victims or afterbirth, but I can't say that there's any rational basis for it. Since killing humans for food is murder and would be covered under that tabu, I'd have to say that there's no good reason for the cannibalism tabu. Phew! I really sent the iconoclast-o-meter off the scale on that one.! Karen

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