Comments on: Is Eating People Wrong?

By: the evangelical outpost

the evangelical outpost — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 06:11:39 +0000

Thirty Three Things From This Fool's Paradise 1. "The information age is strewn with verbal (not to mention visual) litter. I'm thinking about the proliferation of words that computers and other media allow us to generate and disseminate so easily that words become cheap and the wonder...

By: Athena

Athena — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:42:58 +0000

There's a great line in the new movie "Sin City" that says "Well, I think eating people is pretty damn weird" or something to that effect. It provides comic relief in a fairly gruesome scene.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:53:13 +0000

And is it true that a Colorado university named its cafeteria after Alferd Packer, cannibal? Apparently so. Not that Packer met Mill's criteria, as his meals didn't consent.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:43:03 +0000

Okay, I'll "bite": *nothing* is wrong with that. If two competent adults want to agree to snack off each other, how does their freakishness impair society? One only wishes they could eat each other, like the dog & cat in the nursery rhyme. Arguments like Kimball's are all "ick" factor, precisely because he has no intellectual argument. (I used to respect Kimball's intellect a lot more, before I started reading his New Criterion pieces. The man must have medical complications from his knee's jerking.)