They do basic risk-reward valuation

if that were so, they'd eat their own

It’s not just “muh instinct” most predator animals are more intelligent than prey animals because they have to be able to make those value judgements

and that's very rare

animals aren't like edgy neckbeard atheists

It entirely depends on the species

Most great apes don’t have a problem eating each other even if it’s the same species

Fucking Hippos will eat each other

That is still very rare in hippos

Again it just depends on like risk-reward valuation, and whether or not it’s safe to eat your own species. Like humans can’t eat certain parts of the human body because we can’t digest them correctly, animals are the same way. If they’re not able to digest their own species, they probably won’t engage in cannibalism outside of extraordinary circumstances, and that might become instinctual as its bred into future generations

there are only a handful accounts of cannibalism in them

it was likely due to starvation

Yeah they’re not edgy neckbeard atheist, but I think it’s incorrect to attribute avoidance of eating other mammalian predators to something inherent in us or other mammalian predators

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And like

We’re humans we can literally eat any other animal because the energy expended to kill it is minuscule comparative to how other animals hunt

If you wouldn’t eat bugs and dogs you’re not epic

humans are social animals

and we have evolved to cooperate with each other

like many other species have

things like cannibalism are against human instinct

it doesn't mean we can't fight our instincts though

Yeah cannibalism makes sense because there are huge parts of the human body which will make you sick if you eat them. Whatever genes make people pre-disposed to wanting to engage in cannibalism are probably rare because most cannibals, especially ancient cannibals who didn’t understand not every part of the human body is safe to eat, would’ve gotten sick and died, being less likely to reproduce

no

europeans at least, aren't generally predisposed to cannibalism yet they lived in some of the harshest conditions

Nobody is generally predisposed to cannibalism

africans have had a lot more cases of cannibalism

Because like I said it’s dangerous practice

Like ritualistic cannibalism

not just ritualistic

Why are you niggas talking about eating people in the Blumf chatroom😤

Men usually wouldn't be allowed to eat other people but children and women would

And if you observe ritualistic cannibalistic practices, they only consume parts of the body which’re safe to eat like hearts

that's why things like kuru were much more common in women

meanwhile in the trump channel <:laugh:583238348077006869>

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basically cannibalism is wrong

simple as

I would sooner die

I mean

Is eating a man’s penis gay?