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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (4288)2/2/2001 2:56:45 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Well, bland's immediate response would be to say that other species do not kill and consume each other as a routine mechanism for survival. Human cannibalism, at least as it's commonly practiced by bland and his friends, is more along the lines of a ritualistic, religious practice than a strictly nutritional one.

The frog example is interesting, and rather bizarre, and it does go to "survival". But bland's original point still holds, he thinks, which was addressing X's comments on life continually feeding on death, on killing for food. Human beings typically do not kill each other for food. And in many cases "survival" is not the issue, either. It is all too often a personal decision acted on for personal reasons. And that's primarily what makes it "wrong" in bland's eyes.
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