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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Who had scientists suggest we rethink cannibalism on their 2024 bingo card? |
0:06.0 | Probably nobody. Everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. This is |
0:10.1 | Right Angle, brought to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com. And gentlemen, there is an article |
0:15.3 | in new scientists this week. And oh, this is old school, I guess. This, this article is behind the paywall, |
0:24.3 | but based on the headline about rethinking cannibalism, I gave him my, my credit card number and |
0:29.7 | oh, this scares me, my home address so I could get a trial subscription to read this thing. |
0:37.2 | You see a truck that says soil and green or even SG on it. |
0:40.2 | Run for your life. |
0:41.5 | I'm in trouble. |
0:43.2 | And I just, I want to give me the intro from this article, which by the way, not only was behind the paywall, but was unsigned. |
0:49.2 | So this is how important it is that we rethink cannibalism. |
0:53.3 | It is the ultimate taboo in most societies. |
0:56.7 | The idea of one human eating another is morally repugnant, |
1:00.0 | even in circumstances where it could be arguably justified, |
1:03.7 | such as when a plane crashed in the Andes in 1972, |
1:06.6 | and starving passengers ate the dead to survives. |
1:09.2 | We still have a deep aversion to cannibalism, |
1:12.9 | as though that's something we should get over. |
1:15.3 | Let's just drop it, people. |
1:18.6 | Bill, I want to read this next part just for you, because this is, I think, where we get into the meat of the matter. |
1:28.2 | Perhaps it is down to the fact that in Western religious traditions, bodies are seen as the seed of the soul and have a whiff of the sacred. |
1:37.4 | Or, I swear, these were the actual words. |
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