Morality and self digestion

shuckle

shuckle

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I've always been pretty interested in a bunch of different philosophical schools of thought and stuff, but recently I've been finding myself questioning a lot of really odd stuff in my science class that I'm nearly failing.I cut myself by accident this morning, and my immediate reaction was to bring my hand to my mouth and lick the wound. This made me wonder, though; how much of yourself do you end up eating in a year or over the course of your life? There's no way to deny that we do digest ourselves to an extent; you regularly swallow your own saliva, and in cases like these, blood. I'm almost certain that you ingest at least a limb's worth of yourself over the course of a year.

So why is cannibalism shunned by society?

Eating another dead human being, regardless of their willingness to be eaten, is still morally seen as "wrong".

Thoughts on this are much appreciated.
 


We probably do eat a good deal of dead skin cells that die off in our mouths.

but eating part of a human body over the course of say 10 minutes is a bit different than the long natural processes that takes place in our own bodies.
 
wtf is this shit how can you draw the conclusion that because you accidentally ingest a little bit of yourself on occasion it's morally ok to eat people. You're dumb.
 
Well you're pretty fucked up if your first instinct is to drink your own blood when you cut yourself. I would wipre that shit off and clean it.
 
you don't instinctively eat yourself, it's trying to clean the wound or some shit like how dogs always lick their wounds. op is dumb
 
why do people give a fuck about what happens to the lump of tissue that was their body once they are dead? Its not like they are using it.
 
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im worried for you if you can't see the difference between licking blood from your finger when you get a cut and eating someone.

hopefully just an odd troll attempt.
 
I once heard that you swallow a liter of your saliva a day, so based off the OP I'd say you swallow yourself more than you eat yourself.
 
well eating a human would implies that you killed them. and then you get into the fact of the family of the person, because everybody has a family and people that care about them. and then you realize you ended a human life for a meal or two. just not a good situation dont ever do it it sucks.
 
That's where philosophy tries to intervene. We could raise it to be an ethical question (this really isn't a moral issue), but I think the epistemological questions are more interesting. How did we reach the conclusion, where in the (ethical) law is common sense? I don't feel like writing an essay, but we can dig deeper than ostension
 
culture dictates to us what is wrong. some ancient civilizations were known for cannibalism and believing they gain their power thru consuming their flesh.
 
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