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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 483950" data-attributes="member: 151">Of course when it comes to D&D...what are we playing here, tiddlywinks? <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=":)" />  I ignored holy communion because I think it's a dangerous topic to get into, as it's too easy to offend someone.  I would also post (being an ex-Catholic) that many catholics don't even fully grasp that symbolism or dogma, and just consider it a ritual like any other.I didn't say Cannibals would only eat weaklings, just that eating your enemy was evil.  You're assuming that the person being eaten was willing, or at least accepted that they'd be eaten if they fell.  I'm not making that assumption, especially as the orignal poster wanted to know about this with respect to a druid.  You're trying to eat your cake and have it, too.  You can't use Polynesians to support your argument, and then ignore Egyptians when they don't.  Could a case be made for ethical cannibalism?  I suppose so.  But as often as not, it's an evil act.  I could posit that a society that believes that children should be thrown off a cliff over the ocean, and those that aren't dashed on the rocks are blessed, and those who aren't deserved to die....and I'd consider that evil, too.  I understand moral relativism...but are certain acts that I simply don't consider as being good, under any circumstances.  If a good person commits an evil act, it's still an evil act.  If it's committed for good reasons, it's an evil act.My point about disease was this: if you're a cleric in a D&D world, your diety is a very real, tangible force.  He gives you magic power, he performs powerful miracles, talks to his followers and so on.  In such a world, unless there is real, tangible effect to eating someone else's body parts (other than risk of death or madness) than it's an even more evil act because now you have a potentially good person hurting themselves, on top of commiting an evil act.</blockquote>

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