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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 480386" data-attributes="member: 3087">People've been really good on this thread. One thing about canibalism being evil:You should break Canibalism up slightly into the eating of people and the killing of people to eat them. Murder is really the key thing thats pretty much a no-no in every culture. I think that killing someone for food when other sources of nutrition are availible is what really makes the practice almost universally abhored.I think that one of the easiest canibalism justifications is simply mental (which people are hitting at when talking about Mind Flayers). If you don't think that being sentient is important then eating a person is just like eating a tree or a dog or a cow. And given the large number of things in a fantasy game that are thinking (i.e. have Int scores above 5 -- five being a smart dog) its easy to see the whole distinction blurring.Or maybe it rests around the presumtion of the possession of a soul? A tribe could beleive that they are the only true people with souls, taht everyone else on the planet is soem sort of demon creature given life by an anti-god. In that context it is only natural that they, the choosen people, partake of the flesh of lesser creatures.Or is it around physical body type (ie. you wouldn't eat a halfing but you would chaw down on dragon meat. You wouldn't wear halfing skin armor but you would wear draon scale.... just curious...)</blockquote>