Provoke them to attack you so you can kill them for eating?
Talking in theaters!
These are all good suggestions.
But on a more serious note--I'm trying to think of a situation in which cannibalism would be acceptable, outside of being adrift in the ocean or stranded in the mountains with no hope of rescue.
Personally, I have no objection to the act of eating human flesh, per se. That's just a food taboo, and as
scotpens put it: meat is meat.
(And since there seems to be no word for human meat in English, I suggest we follow precedent, and call it "homm," from the French
homme.)
The problem is: how do I go about obtaining the ground homm for my manwich, without violating someone's rights?
The only acceptable way of obtaining this meat would seem to be a system of voluntary bequests: people could will their bodies to the meat-packing industry, the way they will them to science.
That's not completely outside the realm of possibility. It only became socially acceptable to will your body to science over the past hundred years or so.
But on the one hand, the fact that meat-packing is a for-profit industry would make me leery about just taking their word for the fact that their homm had been obtained by bequest. And it's hard to imagine any meat-packer being willing to handle homm, until the taboo against eating it had declined markedly.
It's also hard to imagine people donating their bodies to be eaten in sufficient numbers to make it economical for any business to sell it. Though I suppose it would be possible to run some kind of boutique internet-based human butcher shop for the wealthy--homm.com?--which offered cash incentives in exchange for bequests.
But any system of cash incentives would invite abuses. One reason why we moved to a system of voluntary bequests of bodies for medical education was because the old system of paying body snatchers for digging up corpses led to murder for dissection.
Finally, given the way most people die in our society, I doubt their homm would be palatable.
