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Some of these tribes are even cannibals, they kill people and eat them. Should we turn a blind eye to that too? I don't know. It's a hard question.
by Devilboy 16y ago
Some of these tribes are even cannibals, they kill people and eat them. Should we turn a blind eye to that too? I don't know. It's a hard question.
- olalonde 16y agoIndeed. There's actually a term for that: cultural relativism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_relativism
- wazoox 16y agoThere are several ways to anthropophagy, endogamous (eating your ancestors) and exogamous (eating your enemies). Most cannibals tribes are of the first kind, until some external pressure brings them to eat their enemies : - rise of slave trades may have pushed African tribes into exogenous cannibalism; - extreme scarcity of proteins source and population growth may be the cause of cannibalism in Papua. In any case, as Montaigne famously said more than 400 years ago, they would find our way of treating our dead relatives (or enemies) incredibly cruel and barbaric, letting them rot in the ground instead of giving them the proper grave their souls call for in our own bodies?