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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8022375" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>I don't think that many of these races, especially the evil ones, would have word for it. These aren't races that shared a common ancestor with humanity at some point. They evolved as separately and would have alien ways of thinking. In some cases they came from other universes to the ones were you find them, such as orcs being brought in from somewhere else by portals in the Forgotten Realms. Why would such an alien thinking race have a word like cannibalism? Why would they not think of their neighbor as meat, especially if that neighbor was a different race?</p><p></p><p>It's a bit different with the PC races. Dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings as races go are primarily good, and thinking of your neighbor as meat is pretty not good as things go. There's also the metagame influence of the players and DMs using these races as PCs for so long. That humanizes the non-human PC races further than they would be, considering that they too would think differently than humans due to their evolutionary process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8022375, member: 23751"] I don't think that many of these races, especially the evil ones, would have word for it. These aren't races that shared a common ancestor with humanity at some point. They evolved as separately and would have alien ways of thinking. In some cases they came from other universes to the ones were you find them, such as orcs being brought in from somewhere else by portals in the Forgotten Realms. Why would such an alien thinking race have a word like cannibalism? Why would they not think of their neighbor as meat, especially if that neighbor was a different race? It's a bit different with the PC races. Dwarves, elves, gnomes and halflings as races go are primarily good, and thinking of your neighbor as meat is pretty not good as things go. There's also the metagame influence of the players and DMs using these races as PCs for so long. That humanizes the non-human PC races further than they would be, considering that they too would think differently than humans due to their evolutionary process. [/QUOTE]
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