The head is the ‘best part’

[4stringer77]

War is so awful that it can drive men to commit cannibalism. That said, I guess one thing I have in common with those Japanese soldiers is I'd be lying if I said I never ate ass before.

[4stringer77]

I bet some of those soldiers opted for a nice tossed salad instead. Alright, Im done now. 

[uwe]

Put people under extreme duress and they do extreme things. Cases of cannibalism happened in Stalingrad with encircled German troops and they happened with desperate Soviet POWs as the German Wehrmacht willfully starved them to death in 1941, same thing during the criminal siege of Leningrad where causing cannibalism among the populace was a German propaganda goal to demean the Russians. It also happened with the survivors of the Andes airplane crash in the 70s. I wouldn't judge, hunger can drive you mad, the Pope absolved the Chileans.

I'm pretty sure the Japanese fabricated some mock-ideological pretense to face/justify the prospect of eating human flesh in the absence of anything else. Don't think it was too good for their Shinto karma either.

Eating human flesh for sustenance is relatively rare. It generally requires famine-like conditions. In the absence of those and where it is culturally embedded, the ritual, erotic and religious aspects overshadow the metabolism one. Remember the German cannibal guy Armin Meiwes from around the Millenium?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes

At the time of his trial there was the issue whether him eating his male victim (who had volunteered to be killed and eaten as it was a sexual fantasy of his) was a sign of demeaning him (it would have increased Armin's sentence). Several anthropological scientists gave expert opinions that throughout history famine-free cannibalistic practice was not perceived as demeaning the victims, ritual and religious aspects being key.

Armin is still serving his life sentence. A schizoid character (but deemed fit to stand trial) he has by now become a - don't laugh - vegetarian and is a model inmate in the psychic ward of a low-security prison. Eligible for parole since 2017, his attempts to gain it have so far failed due to allegedly poor prospects of reintegration, but he is meanwhile allowed to do incognito supervised excursions outside of the prison. He regrets his deed and blames himself for not having sought psychological help sooner as his cannibalistic fantasies took up a greater and greater part of his everyday life.

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Now look where Dave's callous and gloating dislike of guinea pigs got us! 



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