Comments on: What A Way To Go…

By: rickyjames

rickyjames — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 09:15:30 +0000

...while I solidly agree with absloutely everything you have said, we are I think morally obligated to TRY and comprehend stuff like this. Which is why I present stuff like this on SciScoop. It's revolting but it's also critically important that we as a civilized society acknowledge and even try to understand understand the psychology and sociology and anthropology behind it, so we can keep it in check to infect our tomorrows as little as possible. Somehow it's tied in with the atrocities that have happened repeatedly in places like Rwanda and Cambodia and Germany. The Rwanda genocide verdict this week is especially important - those guys were DJs that talked in a studio instead of swinging a machette in a village. Hate speech on the radio can now be a war crime...

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 00:19:28 +0000

It is a sad, disturbing, and wretched testemant to the endless adaptability of man, that eventually every possible bizzare, perverse, and insane act will not only be thought of, but embraced, accepted, and then defended.
The fact that Mr.Meiwes has chosen cannabalism is not so disturbing as the fact that he not only found his eventual victem Mr.Brandes, but found a seeming plethora of VOLUNTEERS. Such a thing would be disturbing enough as a last request in a will, but as a chosen end, it was incomprehensible.

By: Sweetwind

Sweetwind — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:34:11 +0000

Remember what happened last time you brought up the subject... the willing victims are definitely out there, and I don't know whether to wish our member luck in his quest, or not. I believe in assisted suicide, but only when medically necessary (as in terminal illness and suffering)...but then again I find it hard to go against an individual's choice in the matter. So if, like The Dish of the Day in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he earnestly wants it, who is to gainsay him?