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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Kid Rock who wrote (96071)2/17/2005 3:48:40 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I don't have time right now to googlesearch re Bush being bought and paid for by big drug companies, but I will later.

I think you are giving googling a bad name, though. When you say, for example, that you could justify human cannibalism by googling, that statement is not exactly accurate. There are many scientific articles to be obtained by googling that substantiate early human cannibalism based on archaeological evidence.

This emphatically does not JUSTIFY (your word) human cannibalism. Substantiating the accuracy of evidence is completely different from using the evidence to justify behavior. That is an illogical leap you are making.

I would also note that primitive peoples may have been cannibals for several reasons. Superstitious groups, unburdened by modern science, believed in some instances they were gaining power by eating parts of their tribe members' bodies. They may have been eating friends and neighbors who died of natural causes, not murdering them for consumption, and honoring them in a ritualistic way at the same time.

In South America recent evidence shows that parents in one group probably ate the brains of their dead children. Not because they were savage, but as an act of love, to keep their children with them always. So cannibalism itself is a mixed bag. Looking at intent really muddies the waters and one certainly cannot conclude it is always savage brutality at work.
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