> In fact, troll funeral rites are pretty much a text book example of how endo-cannibalism works in human societies that practice it. Pretending that it isn't is just semantic games, of the 'I'm going to redefine what this word means because it sounds icky' variety.
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> I think the difference between eating a body as part of a reverential ceremony that you believe aids the deceased, and murdering someone in order to eat them because you are hungry, is blindingly obvious to trolls though, in just the same way as the difference between being given a gift and mugging passers by is blindingly obvious.
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You are correct, I was using the term "cannibalism" in a modern western sense of "inherently evil, icky, unthinkable crime" and not in the more accurate anthropological sense you point out.
I think aside from the semantic misunderstanding, we are very much in agreement.
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