You know that feeling when your stomach is churning, full of butterflies? You may get sweaty palms or start shaking. For some reason you just have never been so scared. Well this is how I feel when the subject of cannibalism comes up. Either reading about it, watching a movie about it it, or just hearing about it, to me there is simply no worse thing. Cannibals are undoubtedly horrifying. The prospect that they could sum up the nerve to kill and eat human flesh, one of their own kind, is just proposterous. When I was browsing CNN.com's recently published news articles, I was astonished to find a current case dealing with a man on trial for cannibalism in London, England.
"A British chef who killed a man with a knife and cooked and ate his flesh was sentenced Monday to minimum of 30 years in prison."
That is the first sentence in the article. What the heck? Now I can see the sentencing to a minimum of 30 years in prison part, but the beginning of that sentence... a chef KILLED a MAN with a KNIFE and COOKED and ATE his FLESH? How much more disgusting can we get here? Back to the 30 years sentence... is that long enough? I couldn't even imagine a justifiable sentence for such an act.
While the two were on a weekend getaway at the chef, Morley's house in Leeds, it seems that Morley just decided that it was a good idea to kill his guest, Oldfield. "Morley slit Oldfield's throat as he lay in his bed, stabbed him repeatedly and cooked some of his flesh." Morley defended himself in court by saying, "he had been provoked when Oldfield unexpectedly initiated sexual contact after the pair watched "Brokeback Mountain," a film about two cowboys who try to conceal an affair."
To me this is just plain ridiculous. If Morley's claim was really true, there should have been no need for him to kill and then eat Oldfield. There is absolutely no reasoning to justify these actions.
Cannibalism is a sickening thing. Just imagine if it was happening in a species besides humans. Would it be okay for a squirrel to eat his or her squirrel friend of family member just because they were bored or wanted some chow? Absolutely not.
CNN.com
Cannibal chef jailed for 30 years
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/20/uk.chef.cannibal.ap/index.html
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This post made me laugh. There are serious historians (a former respected professor of mine, included) who deny cannibalism exists or ever exited. That it's a story people invent to oppress people and create racism. But...according to other credible sources, it was a practice, and evidently still is, thanks to your fearful investigations.
This story proves that there are strange and scary people among us in this world. Someone, at some point, failed them miserably, and now they are living among us, scaring the daylights out of us...
Ah--to clarify two things: I didn't laugh at the sick act, but at the heebie-jeebies you felt, because we all feel them.
Second, there are species that eat each other. Spiders, for instance. And fish. Oh, and dogs are known to eat their puppies. Gross and unsettling, yes, but true.
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