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I admit that I have a strong distaste for the word cannibalism. No matter how you refine its definition, cannibalism carries the strongest meaning of something eating something of the same species. In RealLife, humans are mammals but we're ok eating cows (also mammals) but not other humans. There isn't the same feeling even if a human were to eat a chimp (our closest biological neighbor). We might go
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I admit that I have a strong distaste for the word cannibalism. No matter how you refine its definition, cannibalism carries the strongest meaning of something eating something of the same species. In RealLife, humans are mammals but we\'re ok eating cows (also mammals) but not other humans. There isn\'t the same feeling even if a human were to eat a chimp (our closest biological neighbor). We might go \"ick\" but I don\'t think we\'d feel cannibalism was involved.
While the mammalian society in Zootopia tries to be unified, much of the core tensions in the story revolves around them not being as unified as they\'d like due to the wide variety of species involved and the historical divide between predator and prey. (Which itself is muddled because in real life predators don\'t limit themselves to just prey animals, many will also eat smaller predators).
I was wanting to convey, especially in the context of the food chain that was the basis for the VegetarianCarnivore trope, that there is a social mandate in the Zootopian universe that a sapient mammal does not eat another sapient mammal for the simple reason that they *are* sapient. Douglas Adams played with this discomfort in his \"Hitchhikers\" series with the \"Dish of the Day\" where a sapient, talking cow comes out and introduces them-self to the customers pointing out their choice parts for consumption.
\"Taboo\" would be an acceptable alternative over \"Murder\" or even remove the line altogether but I\'d prefer \"Cannibalism\" to be avoided if possible.
While the mammalian society in Zootopia tries to be unified, much of the core tensions in the story revolves around them not being as unified as they\'d like due to the wide variety of species involved and the historical divide between predator and prey. (Which itself is muddled because in real life predators don\'t limit themselves to just prey animals, many will also eat smaller predators).
I was wanting to convey, especially in the context of the food chain that was the basis for the VegetarianCarnivore trope, that there is a social mandate in the Zootopian universe that a sapient mammal does not eat another sapient mammal for the simple reason that they *are* sapient. Douglas Adams played with this discomfort in his \"Hitchhikers\" series with the \"Dish of the Day\" where a sapient, talking cow comes out and introduces them-self to the customers pointing out their choice parts for consumption.
\"Taboo\" would be an acceptable alternative over \"Murder\" or even remove the line altogether but I\'d prefer \"Cannibalism\" to be avoided if possible.
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I admit that I have a strong distaste for the word cannibalism. No matter how you refine its definition, cannibalism carries the strongest meaning of something eating something of the same species. In RealLife, humans are mammals but we're ok eating cows (also mammals) but not other humans. There isn't the same feeling even if a human were to eat a chimp (our closest biological neighbor). We might go
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I admit that I have a strong distaste for the word cannibalism. No matter how you refine its definition, cannibalism carries the strongest meaning of something eating something of the same species. In RealLife, humans are mammals but we\'re ok eating cows (also mammals) but not other humans. There isn\'t the same feeling even if a human were to eat a chimp (our closest biological neighbor). We might go \"ick\" but I don\'t think we\'d feel cannibalism was involved.
While the mammalian society in Zootopia tries to be unified, much of the core tensions in the story revolves around them not being as unified as they\'d like due to the wide variety of species involved and the historical divide between predator and prey. (Which itself is muddled because in real life predators don\'t limit themselves to just prey animals, many will also eat smaller predators).
I was wanting to convey, especially in the context of the food chain that was the basis for the VegetarianCarnivore trope, that there is a social mandate in the Zootopian universe that a sapient mammal does not eat another sapient mammal for the simple reason that they *are* sapient. Douglas Adams played with this discomfort in his \"Hitchhikers\" series with the \"Dish of the Day\" where a sapient, talking cow comes out and introduces them-self to the customers pointing out their choice parts for consumption. \"Taboo\" would be an acceptable alternative over \"Murder\" or even remove the line altogether but I\'d prefer \"Cannibalism\" to be avoided if possible.
While the mammalian society in Zootopia tries to be unified, much of the core tensions in the story revolves around them not being as unified as they\'d like due to the wide variety of species involved and the historical divide between predator and prey. (Which itself is muddled because in real life predators don\'t limit themselves to just prey animals, many will also eat smaller predators).
I was wanting to convey, especially in the context of the food chain that was the basis for the VegetarianCarnivore trope, that there is a social mandate in the Zootopian universe that a sapient mammal does not eat another sapient mammal for the simple reason that they *are* sapient. Douglas Adams played with this discomfort in his \"Hitchhikers\" series with the \"Dish of the Day\" where a sapient, talking cow comes out and introduces them-self to the customers pointing out their choice parts for consumption. \"Taboo\" would be an acceptable alternative over \"Murder\" or even remove the line altogether but I\'d prefer \"Cannibalism\" to be avoided if possible.
