@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:
1 - Just how this oddity, implies mostly cannibalism was practised this way ?
...and by the way, were they hunting their loved ones ? I seriously doubt that ! This is demagoguery, a cloud of dust.
2 - On Moral and Ethic divergence historical definition counts very little when it comes to admit or realize that there are forms which can be perceived as Universal and generally common to human behaviour, as others heavily dependent on costume and culture, and that´s a fact which cannot be set aside or denied...if you want to fuse moral and ethic out of convenience alone, or historical tradition that does n´t account that everywhere in the world this two senses of rules apply in the opinion of most informed people in spite of the names they might use to describe it. I care with the phenomena and not with the tag in which is sealed, nevertheless I think I made it clear in the very beginning of my first post that such interpretation was my personnel view on the matter by contrast with the classical mess made upon it...given is obviously a mess wherever I read on it !!!
So, Fido instead of supporting in the typical transcendental "magichery" most of your correct assumptions on moral principles and behaviour, bring it a bit down to Earth closer to Darwinism and Evolution far from the rotting dichotomy of matter versus spirit specially when this days nobody can quite well to tell the difference any more...
I trust that it was much more common than you let on especially in places like New Guinnea where protean sources were very rare...
To say there is a difference between ethics and morals is like saying there is a difference between hate and fear... They are differnt sides of the same coin, so to speak; and the very confusion surrounding the possible differences of meaning of morals and ethics is a vote for an identical meaning since all difference since the coinage of Morals as a word have resulted from opinion and not fact...
Normally I would say that a different word has a different meaning, that we do not call different objects by the same name, but by different names... And yet there are examples like heather and pagan that have the same meaning springing from different countries, of hayseed, or yokel...
I do not hold any metaphysical notions of human creation; and true ethic recognizes genetic relationships as metaphysics does not... When I say Ethics has to do with the life of the community I say so in the gentic sense; and this is true of primitive peoples as well, because ethics were national, that is, springing from a common mother, Natal, and Navel pointing to a genetic connection... Metaphysics in looking at spiritual creation is false, and it is nice that Jefferson and the Catholics we had a creator, but that has never resulted in ethical behavior...
