Re: Cannibal gene? law of the jungle

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:45:01 GMT, "palmer.william"
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>One thing I am curious about is whether or not
>the civilized nations of Africa have been funding any
>research aimed at curing cannibalistic tribes of their
>flesh-eating propensities.   Governments may have
>concluded that is is a far too large and deep-rooted
>problem to deal with.    How do you cure a cannibal?

One common misconception with cannibalism is that it does not
typically exist to supply a food source, rather, it is ritualistic to
absorb the power of your enemy.

Hal

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>As far as what might be discovered by such
>research, I would wonder whether if one's ancestors
>have engaged in cannibalism from time immemorial,
>there might not be some sort of genetic problem in the
>mix, in the same vein that an "alcoholic gene" has
>been identified.  Is there a "cannibal gene"?
>Perhaps research will be done on this in
>the future.
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>By the way, since Usenet remarks on any
>sensitive issue are notoriously easy to misunderstand
>and/or deliberately distort, I hasten to add that I am
>well aware that a great many African tribes have no
>history of cannibalism whatsoever, and consider such
>behavior as utterly reprehensible as anyone else does.
>Further, there have been horrifying cases of Caucasian
>cannibals,such as Dahmer, Albert Fish, and Ed Gein,
>so no one can reasonably make this into any sort of
>racial problem.
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>Even so, that would not necessarily preclude
>the presence of a cannibal gene, because among
>races, almost no one will dispute the fact that
>some races (and even ethnic groups within races)
>are more prone to certain diseases than others are,
>so perhaps  Dahmer, Fish, Gein, etc., had a genetic
>mutation which produced the cannibal gene (IF such
>a gene exists, and no one knows at this time, since
>apparently no research has been done on this).
>It would certainly be of benefit to human society
>if the  governents of nations wracked by this
>horrible affliction would fund some research
>into the matter.   It could help their own countries,
>too, in many other ways, such as increasing
>tourism by making visitors to the jungle feel
>safer.
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>the alt.genius.bill-palmer
>--firing posts at random from the window of the
>office upstairs from rec.arts.prose
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