In class discussion Professor Garrison brought up the issue on Humans are born with the gene to be cannibals. I really don't believe that we where born to be cannibals, but some humans may choose to be cannibals in order for them to act upon their selfishness. For example, when I was watching Lock Up a TV show their was this man who killed his whole entire family and ate parts of their body. He said he did this to satisfy himself and he found it very amusing. After I watched him give his interview to the show I found it very disgusting. I couldn't believe someone would do this to their family. But there are humans out there that have issues and choose to be cannibals because it's something that interest them. I believe these people that are cannibals need help because in our society today cannibals are not considered the norm.
Also, in class discussion we talked about language being the reason why we are not cannibals. I believe that language does have a big impact toward humans not becoming cannibals. Well for the most part most normal humans are not cannibals, but there are those outside the norm that are cannibals. We humans see cannibalistic as an evil thing to do, but is it really an evil thing to do when you are starving to death? As for chimpanzees, it's not an evil thing to do it's considered the norm. Some people may say that they are not cannibals, which some I would believe, but if they where put in a position where they had to eat someone for their sake of their life would they eat them? I believe that's when they will know if they really are a cannibal.
Garrison also, brought up the topic about humans being evil by nature. Well I really don't want to say all humans are evil by nature because for the most part everyone has good in them. It depends how you define evil. Humans can act in an evil manner in a good way and in a bad way. Such as, the Nazis killing all of the Jews because they where forced to and if they did not their own lives would be taken. Some people tell a small lie to help them better themselves, which is considered evil, but it was not considered evil to them. So you would have to justify the word EVIL.
"I believe that language does have a big impact toward humans not becoming cannibals." Me too. The next question, then, is how big an impact is it?
ReplyDeleteI disagree with all cannibalism coming out of selfishness
ReplyDeleteYes! I believe there are many ways to defing evil, but as I said in my blog - I choose not to believe we are inherently evil - that word is, in my opinion, reserved for beings that are in a whole different realm from human beings.
ReplyDelete*defining - oops!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog and definitely agreed with the points you made. Especially when you talked about cannibalism. I agree that although, in today's society, we do look at cannibalism being disgustin and not normal, how do we know we wouldn't eat another person if we were faced with a life/death situation? And if we were faced with that sort of situation and had to eat another person to survive, does that make us cannibals even though it is not what we want to do or in any other circumstance would do? I think we definitely have the same outlook on the situation.
ReplyDeleteGood points. Its an interesting subject to think about and discuss with others. I think different situations definatly allow people to do things they wouldnt on a normal basis, and that extreme situations could lead people do completly stray from their beleives and do the unthinkable....I guess no one can really say or judge unless they are put in that situation themselves.
ReplyDeleteI agree, how are we to look down upon those who have in desperate situations become cannibalistic? There is no sure fire way to for someone to say no I would never eat another human unless they were put through the most off the wall situation.
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