[Buddha-l] Re: "Nature" and eating meat

[Peter D. Junger]

Joy Vriens writes:

: Peter D. Junger wrote:
: 
: > But note that there appears to be no case where someone was convicted
: > of cannibalism rather than some form of homicide.
: 
: I tried to find some facts about the recent German cannibal case and 
: found the same:
: 
: "Cannibalism is not a recognised offence under German law and the 
: defence will argue that, since the victim volunteered, this was no murder."
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3286721.stm
: 
: Kind of strange since necrophilia is an offence, isn't it?

Not really.  The cases where there was cannibalism but no homicide
seem all to involve people who were starving and whose bad taste
was therefor forgivable.  There are few laws against actions
(karma (?)) that either don't happen or, if they do, don't offend
anyone.

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
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