How can someone willingly eat someone they know??

Recynon said:
Yeah it's never really explained or justified this season and is the sole reason that I dont like this show. It seems like the author is trying to pass it off as quirky or metaphoric but it really does not make any sense. What's more, the show frames Benten as this special little beauty with some internal conflict and this aggravates me because no, you're just an asshole.

SgtBaitMan said:
Anything to raise is also something to 'eat'. The only matter here is well, morality, or fake morality.

Gilsaber said:


That's what make the show less relatable and realistic. This type of behaviour isn't human like.

TitanInsane said:
I mean what drives some humans to kill or abuse people that they know ?

It's not like knowing the person beforehand will somehow stop you from doing terrible things to them if you want to.

Gilsaber said:


That's what make the show less relatable and realistic. This type of behaviour isn't human like.

SsilverD said:


Saying that it "isn't human like" is just plain ridiculous. Cannibalism may be taboo in our societies/cultures but that doesn't make it non-human like behavior. For example there are tribes that don't view cannibalism as something immoral, or another example would be how a tribe in Africa doesn't view breasts as sexual, but rather ankles. Just because their cultural ethics vary from ours doesn't make theirs any less human or ours any more correct. The point is we shouldn't force our moral expectations on other societies, nor believe that ours is the 'correct' way to be human. Its very silly to force your society's morals on a FICTIONAL world.

SsilverD said:
He was saying that it's just a definite "non-human like behavior", my main point was against that. There are risks to cannibalism course but there is no intrinsic or innate knowledge that cannibalism is something against humanity. The stigmatization against cannibalism is something developed by culture and that's why we can see the variety of stances between cultures.

You tell me it's "absolutely not ok" as if it were an objective wrong like the other guy. You're basically just failing to see past your own societies forced moral expectations and then you yourself, forcing it onto the world and fictional worlds; as an absolute truth.

You say "eat YOU" as if it's supposed to be some big shocker. I personally do not care what happens to my body after death, including whether someone wants to eat my body or throw me into a ditch. I see nothing wrong with that, and feel that it should be up to the person in regards to what happens to their body once they pass on.

I think that you should always be viewing a fictional medium like say a book, anime, or game without bias. Sure you can apply your morals to what's happening and say "Oh god that was horrible" or "Wow he's such a nice guy", but my point of how you shouldn't force your expectations onto it still stands. If we never bother to be open minded and instead force our expectations onto a fictional world over the creators own intentions, then we will end up with a very authoritative, censored, cut and dry, fictional world. The laws, morals, phsyics, ethics, and everything else is up to the creator. We can make our interpretations on it and react to it, but again, it is simply very silly to force our expectations onto a fictional world, as if our way was the definite correct way, and that any other way would be "wrong" or "unrealistic".

I am not referring to what happens in this particular show, as I've never watched it. Everything I've said pertains to what Gilsaber wrote about how something like cannibalism is just objectively "wrong" or "non-human". Saying that in a very broad vacuum is rediculous.

SsilverD said:
I personally do not agree with murdering someone to eat them, or say raising humans to be slaughtered. Nor do I agree with murder in general, but if there were such a society where said things are a part of their normal function. I would still not believe my society to be any more human than theirs.

When it comes to a creator's work of fiction, it really shouldn't be held to any standard except the law. Even then there are exceptions that pertain specifically to art. I think its perfectly fine for a show to condone heinous things like murder or racism. Feel free to criticize it of course, but censoring and disallowing this would not be okay. It's a fictional world and the consumer should understand that fundamentally; our moral expectations may not apply. This goes both ways.

I interpreted what he said very generally, as just saying it isn't human-like behavior is plain ridiculous. But even in a modern Japanese society there are absolutely murderous/psychopathic cannibals, they and their actions are still very much human. It seems like a very weird criticism of the show, but obviously I can't say as of now. Murderous psychopaths don't have to make sense, as in life, they often do not.

I will watch the show soon to get a better understanding of his criticism.