Re: More stupidities

From: Jacques Guy (jguy_at_alphalink.com.au)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:25:01 -0700

Paul J Kriha wrote:

> Is there any evidence what-so-ever that Samoyeds engaged in
> any kind of self-eating pasttime?

Well, I suppose that "self-eating" means cannibalism, and
many societies have engaged in that. The Celts, the
Fijians, the Chinese, the Polynesians, the Aztecs, the
list just about covers the whole globe. Like a Tongan
friend once told me: "Oh, we never ate people! The
Fijians did". When I told that to my half-Tongan, half-
English dentist, he burst out laughing: "The Tongans
were as much cannibals as the Fijians!" Of course,
you have a cretin by the name Robert Ahrens whose
thesis got its 15 minutes of celebrity: "cannibalim
never existed". His argument? "It's all second-hand
evidence". In other words: no-one has ever been eaten
and lived to tell the tale. Do a Google search for
"Ahrens cannibalism" and see.