Is cannibalism wrong, immoral, or unethical if it doesn't involve people being *intentionally* killed?
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anyway to segue to the "why tho" it's obvious avoiding cannibalism and incest carry a fitness benefit
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it's probably unlikely all these societies discovered inbreeding depression or prion disease and took steps to reduce them proactively
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especially since these taboos usually get imposed *very* early. I don't know of any cannibalistic societies that aren't pre-literate, and...
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pre-literate societies have just as much of a long-ass time to develop taboos as post-literate ones no? perhaps even longer in a sense since they haven't had old-times norms torn down yet
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(sorry I'm speaking civili-chauvinistically here, where pre-literate is the vague forevertimes of "pre-history" and writing marks day one)
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So arbitrary tho. “Societal sensibilities” change ~every generation
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not arbitrary, the prevalence longevity and frequent independent emergence of incest/cannibalism taboos would suggest there is an underlying mechanism
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