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I don't talk about it too much but I am an atheist. Not militantly, if someone wants to believe then it's no skin off my nose, I just simply despite some religious background never felt, believed, or was convinced that there was something more. As such to me, death is just cessation of life. The impulses in the brain that make it go tick all stop, and that is that.
I think sometimes you get crazy experiences as parts of the brain shut down, but in the end I don't think it means anything.

Why disgusted by cannibalism, I think it's the outcome of social engineering/ an over reaction to disease

So 1. human beings do eat other animals but that does not mean we are immune to health risks. There's a number of parasites, and issues with meat, there's a reason why many early religions would see eating pork, shellfish, and the like as a violation. Modern food prep and modern food policies have greatly reduced the health issues we could get from food (seriously shitting out your insides was not that uncommon back in the day)

Also note that trans-species diseases are rare. So part of the reason we don't get insane levels of disease from cow or the like is because a virus made for cows does not have the capacity to also infect humans. Now some diseases do and that's when we get worried. It's more common between apes, Ebola for instance came from apes, can be carried in bats (it doesn't have the ability to infect a bat but a bat can incubate the virus and bite people to infect them). the ape to human transfer of disease is probably in part why "bush meat" (ape meat) is considered to be bad, or at least negative.

There are diseases that we get via cannibalism, Kuru is the most notable. It's a neurological disease, essentially the human version of "mad cow disease" and it's basically the same. Mad cow came from feeding cows to other cows, kuru came from cannibalism, specifically ingesting brain matter and spinal fluid. (I wonder if that's in part where the zombie "brains" things comes from)

Anyway, yes we get diseases from it if you don't cook or prepare it right. Cannibalism which properly prepares the meat and takes care to avoid the brain and spine, actually not really unhealthy. I heard it's pretty good too. Kinda like pork.

So the social reasons. Cannibalism is by far more prominent, and was more prominent with hunter/gatherer groups where food and calories are a high concern. Meaning that when the focus is on food and survival snubbing easy access to calories and food is not in your best interest.

In general when a group moves toward an agricultural system cannibalism turns to slavery. In other words there's more value in free labor than there is in the meal. Teach a man to fish sort of situation. These sort of wisdoms aren't generally intelligently articulated and it just ends up being a moral impermissible action or something like that.

So yes, it can lead to nasty disease, but also many groups stopped because it was better to have free labor than a free meal and we internalized that sort of utility as disgust when there was that sort of waste present.

There's also going to be aspects to it involving empathy and mirror emotions, but that's getting super complex and you have to work out reasoning about the other and empathy towards the other and what that entails.

1. Everything and nothing.

To explain, I am an existential nihilist (among other things) meaning that I don't think anything in life has an inherent value or meaning. Value is only applied to whatever it is you want to apply it to. So water in the desert is the most valuable thing in he world, but water is worthless to a drowning man.

Personally I think the most valuable thing in the world is autonomy. Autonomy is the ability to determine one's own actions and choices. This in part heavily applies to my work in ethics so I'm probably biased cause I work with it, and talk about it, and write about it, and research things about it all day day in and day out. Still to me, that's important, and that's why I find violations to autonomy to be reprehensible. Why I find lobotomies, the ultimate removal of autonomy, to be quite possibly the worst medical procedure ever.

2. If I were to sum up my life in philosophy in one sentence hmm, I dunno that's really difficult to do in just one "oh god, oh god, I have no idea what I'm doing, maybe if I focus on this thing no one will notice I don't belong here. oh it worked.