Is cannibalism evil?
Once upon a time, I thought I might try to be a lawyer. I found myself in the Houston District Attorney’s office pressing charges against a bad boyfriend, and I thought to myself, hey, this might not be a bad job to have. So, I took a pre-law type class that talked about some of the basics, like the concept of “mala in se,” or inherent evil.
We question whether an act is evil in and of itself, or if there are circumstances that would make that act not evil. We talked about killing another person and how it was usually acceptable in self defense or in war. But what about eating people? Is it never okay, or is it okay if you’re a South American rugby team trapped
I’ll admit it, I wouldn’t kill a man unless he threatened my life, but I might eat him if he lay freshly dead and there were no other bread. And as I did, I would thank him for his gift.
Does that make me evil?