[lbo-talk] Invertebrate tool use

[Carrol Cox]

Chris D cannot make an argument against cannibalism because no 
ahistorical (moral) argument would bevalid. But from ahistorical
perspective the present period almost universally condemns it. As Marx,
in contrast to Rousseau, thought capitalism history rather than evil, so
was cannibalism history rather than evil (or wrong).

Incidentally, according to Oxford Professor Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
humans are the only species that pracxtices canibalism. (He notes that
the chimpanzees Jane Goodall reported as practicing cannibalism were
clearly pathological. I can't remember now his interpretation of this
fact or even whether I found it convincing when I listened to the CD.

Carrol