Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Cannibalism
First off, I thought today's class discussion on Cannibalism was very interesting. It made me think about this topic in several different ways. I do beleive that language plays a very important role. The idea that chimpanzee's are cannibals is something I was unaware of. I think our human biology is very unique, although we are all made up of the same things, I do think that each of us are different. The way we are raised, our religion, and our overall knowledge of right and wrong, I beleive, heavily weighs our actions. I personally could never see myself resorting to cannibalism, however, I think the instances of human cannbialism which we have heard of are very interesting. I would like to know if there have been any studies on male and female differences in human cannibalism....
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I thought the discussion was very interesting as well. I really wasn't expecting the class topic to be about cannibalism because it's something that we as a society rarely talk about. Due to the topic being evil. I find the information that Garrison gave us about the chimpanzees and humans very odd because I never considered myself to be a cannabal.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_cannibalism
ReplyDelete^ Sexual cannibalism sounds like some sort of really scary/creepy fetish.
ReplyDeleteBefore it was brought up in class I hadn't really thought about there being any potential difference between males and females in reference to their ideas about cannibalism. Maybe female nurturing qualities are socialized and we'd be equally inclined to eat another person.
Or maybe we should act more like the praying mantis and attempt to kill our potential suitors to get them to prove their worth...
Who knows =)?
Before class I never really considered cannibalism. I knew it existed, but how often does on really think about eating people. I agree with you that everyone is raised differently and that affects our actions and the way we act in social situations.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that I hae never thought of eating another human, but I think if it meant life or death and they were already dead it would cross all our minds. We all need to see that we are still animals even if we are evolved further than the others on this earth.
ReplyDeleteYour thoughts on studies of a gender relation to cannabilsm are interesting. I wonder which sex would be more likely to resort to cannibalism. Personally, I could see the results turning to mostly men would be able to resort to cannibalism more so than women, but that might just be a biased opinion because I am a woman and I don’t believe I could ever resort to it no matter the situation.
ReplyDeleteI am with you; cannibalism was never on my top things to think about. Medical studies have shown time and time again that men and women are way different from the way we look, to how our brains interpret different things. I would argue that I’m sure there is difference in cannibalism as well, though that it is purely my own thought.
ReplyDeleteYour post on cannibalism made me think of something I had not thought of before. In class, we have been talking about the argument that the fundamental difference between us and chimpanzees (who are cannibalistic) is language. But I wonder if there is some biological difference in our brains that allows us to have that higher level of thinking. Wouldn't that be the fundamental difference then? Surely our brains aren't identical to monkeys. And like you brought up, I wonder if there is a difference between males and females on this point?
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