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One of the possible unintended consequences of violating the cannibalism taboo, second only in importance to the incest taboo, is that a market for human organs could create its own supply.

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In China, it’s possible to pre-book an organ transplant, something that would be impossible under a voluntary donor system – raising suspicions of widespread organ harvesting.

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"The typical anthropological argument is that the origin of taboos is cultural experience." In fact much of our notion of the sacred and the profane comes from cultural experience. But with the eradication of the past comes the abolition of taboos.
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." GK Chesterton.
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