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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 480806" data-attributes="member: 151">I'll give you the second example, if it's a societal norm and accepted practice for the teacher/father to be consumed...and that said consumee knew it would happen and approved.  The first example, though, to me is STEALING the essence of your foe, in hopes of gaining his power.  He can justify it as honoring the vanquished...but it's a control thing.  How does it honor the dead, exactly?  No one ever requested their foe to consume their heart, shoudl they fall in battle, did they?  The victor is mutilating the corpse and possibly preventing his access to a clean afterlife by preventing his whole body from departing, which may even be his intention.  In this case, it might not be evil, if you're preventing an evil spirit from rising.Ultimately, I could see a limited case made for it being a religious/cultural subtext, but ultimately it would either have to be proven to be legitimately useful to be not evil, IMHO.  If you could actually show that it provides a real benefit, and not a perceived one, then I might agree.  Otherwise, it's an evil practice perpetuated by myth and enacted by otherwise non-evil people.  At the very least, there are very real health-risks involved in eating another person's internal organs, the brain most especially...there are several diseases that come just from eating brains, particularly.And, of course, there's the skeeve factor.  Yuck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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