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   Free Peoples Free Press (freepeoplesfreepress@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 03:30:04 JST Free Peoples Free Press

   • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   "Would you try (eat) human meat if it was legal and safe?"

   Dear Dr. Freemo: No I would not try (eat) human meat if it was legal. Eating your own human kind is not safe from a psychological mental stand point, if we could eat other human beings, we would totally lose our humanity. even if cannibalism no longer was the cause Kuru disease.

   Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesFreePress News

   Kuru disease is an infectious, acquired, non-immunogenic, fatal neurodegenerative prion disease. It progresses rapidly with cerebellar and extrapyramidal signs and symptoms, with death occurring within one to two years of onset of symptoms. The end of cannibalism has put an end to this disease.

   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559103/#:~:text=Kuru%20disease%20is%20an%20infectious,an%20end%20to%20this%20disease.

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     Fair, though to be clear when I said "safe" I meant no risk of kuru or any other disease.

     Personally I'd say its probably more ethical to eat humans than it is other animals... At least if you ate a human you'd be doing the world a favor :)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 03:43:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • mike805

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     It takes years to decades before kuru disease exhibits onset. I highly doubt people could even connect the disease to cannabilism let alone modify their behavior.

     It is genetic, we have a genetic predisposition to not want to eat our own kind (like most animals).

     The reason is also probably partly non-genetic in the sense that evolved due to real harms like kuru. But more likely conentional disease is a far more likely reason. Virus and bacteria you catch would be particularly good at attacking humans and would cause all sorts of issues.

     @freepeoplesfreepress

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     mike805 (mike805@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 03:43:55 JST mike805

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     @freepeoplesfreepress @freemo I've wondered hypothetically why wartime cannibalism is not more common. In war food is often scarce and corpses always plentiful. Why didn't those tribes who could stomach cannibalism take over the world? Soldiers often ate their horses when starving.

     Kuru-type diseases are probably the answer.

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     Free Peoples Free Press (freepeoplesfreepress@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:02:39 JST Free Peoples Free Press

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     Dear Dr. Freemo: I am really deeply bothered just thinking about eating another human being. I get bothered just eating animals. It would not be "psychologically safe" to eat another human being. I known that you qualified your statements cover all diseases. I believe that societies would fall apart if we started to eat each other, We would no longer value another human life, we have enough problems in the world today universally valuing all humans. This would just destroy the last vestiges of humanity.

     Dr. Freemo you probably would argue that we would naturally reduce our human population, would no longer kill or murder innocent animals. With the reducing of our human population, we could begin to live in harmony with nature.

     Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesFreePress News

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     @freepeoplesfreepress I am pretty sure society already fell apart :) but yea I hear ya.

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     Dear Dr. Freemo: Society seems to be disintegrating before my own eyes. Things are really bad, I hope for better times.

     Sincerely, Monica Andrews, Editor-in-chief, #FreePeoplesfreepress News

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 15-Dec-2023 04:26:13 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @freepeoplesfreepress Worst I've seen it in my lifetime.. which is saying a lot because we **have** made some progress to on some important issues (no more ozone hole, yay!). So with as much progress as we made to still be worse off overall from a societal POV is saying a lot.

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     @freemo @mike805 @freepeoplesfreepress also take note of memetic evolution. Cultures that didn’t eat human meat didn’t get sick from it and so thrived better than those that did, no matter if they realised the connection or not. Similar to how some Abrahamic religions forbid pork, which carried parasites and similar unpleasantries but is forbidden because apparently God hates it.