Originally Posted by
rainboweye
Your family seems educated. And who told me that universities are free there ?! Damn that asshole. Damnit that's totally not free.
Every state university/college here is in fact free, It's just that mine is a private one, so the state gives out scholarships that pay 90% - 100% of all tuition fees. Parts of my family is educated, my grandmother for instance is retired and living in Spain most of the time, but instead of chilling, she's getting a university degree in biology in Spanish. for most of the family, I think it's more that we value education, rather than all of'em being very educated.
Originally Posted by
rainboweye
Can you explain what a cannibal is ? Did your old friend eat other humans when he was young ? If what I understood is correct, where and how did that happen ? Communities are organized no one living inside a modern community can eat other humans.
A cannibal is a person that eats human flesh; a herbivore^2. The thing is, both the kinslayer and the cannibal are part of my (my uncle's) people and practise the same culture and religion. Traditionally, all used to be anarchistic and cannibalistic, but the people has gradually become less of both the last 500 years, and we consider that guy one of the last cannibals (the last one in my uncles territory). The Inka people where the one's that taght and forced them to be cannibals, and the tradition lessened with each generation when they died out and Brazil became more modern by a western standard. The religion and culture is much the same now as then (even though no one practises cannibalism and 99% are less violent than the average western population), since don't believe that anyone can/should tell others what to do and not do, and consider most other religion in a way as true as our own.
Saying that no one can live inside a modern community can be a cannibal, is not true, while I do agree when it comes to the cannibals that hunts other humans to kill and eat them. For example, the old man I know is no less functioning in his community (which is per definition a modern community) than anyone else there, because no one judges him for what he has done. If he had lived in yours, he would have been judged and possibly killed, not because it is right (or wrong for that matter), but because of your beliefs, ethics, and willingness to judge others by them. Also, the last part of the cannibalistic tradition, was limited to eating a small part of a person that died so that they would remain in the people iirc. The old man was probably a part of the last time they did this, and everyone else has since died of old age, sickness, or fucking up while in the forest.