Editing Cannibalism (section)

==The Reasons It's A Touchy Subject==
There are five main reasons why most modern media either avoids cannibalism, or downplays it:

#Most mammals (that includes you!) are instinctively predisposed to avoid cannibalism (barring ''severe'' stress such as starvation), since, as mentioned below, cannibalism is a '''really''' great way to spread various diseases, from parasitic to prionic.
#Eating people generally involves human corpses, which begs the question of where the corpses came from. Most people find the idea of someone being murdered to be eaten highly disturbing.
#Native tribes were frequently accused of, or portrayed as, being cannibals when they weren't.  Many tribes who did practice cannibalism were mis-attributed as to when, how and most importantly '''why''' they practiced it. Given the subsequent abuse of the accusation by [[/pol/|blatant racists]] to dehumanize natives, most modern works try to avoid the subject entirely to not be accused (even by double proxy) of propagating racist stereotypes. <!-- Please, no Krootlinking here. We cover the Kroot below. -->
#There are some already [[/d/|rather disturbing people]] who find cannibalism a quite arousing subject. Any sane author who knows about this wants to keep a great deal of distance between their works and [[Furry|said]] [[/d/|people]].
#That shit's disgusting, yo.

There are other ethical, philosophical, and moral reasons why the subject is avoided, but they usually boil down to one of the above.