Quote from: Okurkabinladin on July 13, 2017, 06:40:10 PM

Quote from: Hhampuz on July 13, 2017, 02:48:05 PM

Quote from: indrakusumaindra on July 13, 2017, 02:46:24 PM

eating human flesh would be nice. it would become one of the greatest culinary i ever tasted.

Some people that has eaten human flesh has actually reported that it is by far the tastiest meat they've ever had. Crazy tender and a very special taste. I've never done it so I could not tell you if it is true or not but I could get behind what they are saying as it does make sense.

Hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I have to eat human flesh but you never know.

Mother Nature and God has you covered.

Kuru is a very rare, incurable neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded prion proteins, which leads to symptoms such as tremors, loss of coordination, and neurodegeneration.

The term kuru derives from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake"), due to the body tremors that are a classic symptom of the disease and kúru itself means "trembling". It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via funerary cannibalism. Deceased family members were traditionally cooked and eaten, which was thought to help free the spirit of the dead. Females and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children.

While the Fore people stopped eating human meat half a century ago, the disease lingered due to kurus long incubation period of anywhere from 10 to over 50 years. The epidemic declined sharply after discarding cannibalism, from 200 deaths per year in 1957 to 1 or no deaths annually in 2005, with the last known kuru victim dying in 2009.

Casual cannibalism is not just sin, it is basically just another mechanism by which you voluntarily remove yourself outside of human race and gene pool.

The prion ailments which impact other creatures besides humans are interesting, and the more I think about it, the more I wonder if it is a 'design feature' rather than a bug insofar as it discourages inefficient behavior should it crop up in one population or another. The thing which argues against this hypothesis is that it is noted in herbivores (who wouldn't generally be tempted to eat their fallen comrades.)

One thing I've seen over and over again is that humans, and I think other creatures as well, seem to develop a taste for a food source which sustained them in times of hunger. For instance, one person who grew up during the depression preferred all his life cornbread over any other food. Even steak. This because it was what he ate as a child in the hungry times. It would be interesting to see if the same principle applies (to a minor degree) in populations who needed to resort to cannibalism for survival. Examples would be populations who's leadership choose to try socialism or communism as a economic system such as the Chinese under Mao.