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WCDT Strips 3321-3325 (03 - 07 October 2016)
BenRG:
I've got the feeling that Renee has never warned Elliot just how direct Brun is and the fact that she has this skill of looking at you as if nothing you've said entirely makes sense to her, no matter what you say. Right now, however, I suspect that she's deciding whether or not flustered!Elliot is cute and whether she wishes to make this continue to happen.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 04 Oct 2016, 08:47 ---It was a case of eat to survive or die.
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Fair enough, but that exact same argument applies to nearly every thing humans eat, so I guess we have our answer to every iteration of "why did people first eat...?" It applies equally to corpses and mushrooms.
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Plus it's not like we just started eating corpses and mushrooms as modern humans; our pre-human ancestors ate them too. There wasn't exactly a moment of "Hey, Caveman Bob found a dead thing, let's see if it's tasty!"
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Although I do imagine there was some sort of natural selection in the process. Or the Jackass Effect came into play...
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Not to mention that humans are fairly smart and can learn what generally is and isn't safe to eat by observing not only other humans, but other animals.
Somehow no-one has mentioned this, but there's a few essential proteins that aren't produced by plants, but can be synthesized by our bodies provided we eat the right combination of legumes/beans and other vegetables in the correct balance, as those combinations hold proteins that can be broken down and reassembled. And being that humans tend to put forward as little effort as possible, plus some of us having a strong aversion to bitter flavors [waves hand], thus meat.
Also, imagine how the first humans discovered cooking the meat. Maybe some mastodon getting struck by lightning.
JimC:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 07:49 ---...but eating a corpse? How does that ever seem like a good idea?
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[black humour spoilered out]
(click to show/hide)I suspect the general experience was that eating meat from that which was not yet a corpse was inconvenient, messy and unsatisfactory in many ways.
pwhodges:
(click to show/hide)Especially when the live meat concerned was interested in a reciprocal arrangement.
Case:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 04 Oct 2016, 13:28 ---I don't see a difference between a dead human body and a dead body of any other animal. Dead is dead, a corpse is a corpse, meat is meat.
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I have this theory that most of us are descended from people who either did see the difference, or were smart enough to fake it ... :evil:
(prior to the age of ubiquitous anonymous telecommunication)
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