There are no laws against cannibalism. The crime in english law has always been in murder. And how you dispose of the body after the murder really isn't that important. Rick was given two preserved human foetuses he rehydrated and turn them into a pair of earrings. He told me that a lot of his art during this period, early mid eighties, was inspired by philosophers peter singer and jeremy bentham.
In our final episode on monsters, we investigate why people who eat people are the funkiest people in the afterlife. We talk to a man who has actually eaten parts of other people, many times, about why he thinks consuming human flesh should be normalized. We then consider the age-old question of how God is supposed to resurrect a cannibal and all of his victims when most of the flesh of the victims would also be a part of the cannibal. Some of the best minds in Western philosophy and Christian theology thought about this question, including Leibniz, Aquinas, and Augustine. Co-hosted by Christina van Dyke, featuring artist and cannibal Rick Gibson and philosopher Dean Zimmerman.
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