/approves

Everybody loves Ramin.

If "Surviving the Game" taught me anything, it's that you should never accept an invitation for a hunting trip.

"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing - and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

Eat Ramin today, have a shiatty day tomorrow

unicron702: I must some type of crazy person for thinking I should be able to go anywhere on Earth and NOT BE EATEN BY ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.

Women should be able to get in the car with strange men without having to worry about being raped, too.

The emphasis is on should. You can't exactly count on everyone to do what they should do.

jabelar: Honestly, this case seems less about actual cannibalism than about a sketchy guide that murdered his client with plans to rape his girl.

Interestingly, he tied her to a tree. It may be irrelevant, but according to the Wikipedia article, that's how the natives used to 'store' their vicitms: hanging from trees until dinnertime, when their heads were bashed in with rocks.

Either way, I'm guessing he ate him, was going to rape her, then was going to eat her, too.

unicron702: I'm sorry but while rape is obviously horrible and what not, I don't think it holds a candle in terms of things that are a "completely lack of humanity beyond description" to cooking and eating someone. They aren't even remotely similar in terms of severity.

People are made of meat.

Yes, it's one of the most horrible crimes our civilization has constructed, but that is not our civilization and even within our civilization, not everyone cares what we decide is right or wrong. There is no universal consensus on the value of human life.

I'm not saying that we need to be tolerant of this horrifying, barbaric practice. However, it simply does happen.

unicron702: dittybopper: unicron702:
I, like every other Fark poster, have my zombie survial strategy planned to the smallest detail.

Me? I'm just going to wing it.

I'm going with the popular culture of the moment. The story will be epic in scope, have great cinematography, provide amazing terror filled moments, but the entire cast of characters will be one dimensional and every Sunday night we'll have a smaller story that will run too long, contain WAY too many commercials, and focus on the rescuing of idiotic and sucidal children.

Stop it. I just got back last night from vacation and have not watched the new episode yet. Thankfully, with a DVR I can escape the torrent of ads.

TravisBickle62: Cannibalism is almost universally regarded as abhorrent, whereas the only reason why rape isn't a daily happening is that it's illegal, the two aren't really comparable.

I'm not buying that. Rape, like cannibalism, is unacceptable because the moral underpinnings of our society lead to few other possible conclusions. Most of your neighbors would still be horrified and shun you if you were known as a rapist, even if it was legal and you promised not to rape your neighbors or their loved ones.

Different societies believe different things. There is no fundamental consensus about the nature of right and wrong or mankind's role in the order of things, although some principles, like the idea that it's wrong to eat people even when they have no economic or social value to you, have become nearly universal, but that doesn't mean that those who hold to different conclusions can just be dismissed as monsters.

People can feel perfectly normal levels of empathy for other human beings, understand that those people are suffering, and, in various situations, just not care because their society has taught them that making that person suffer is OK and even desirable. Supposing you don't share our notion that human beings are inherently sacred and elevated above the animals, it may be a hard sell to convince you that people who hold no economic or social value to your community are not just as legitimate of a source of food as anything else moving around in the wilderness.

It may very well be the case that we share some unbreakable moral bond as human beings that, on some level, makes us all the same and obligates us all to care for one another, but not everybody is aware of that, and assuming they are is dangerous.