How mutated would a cannibal mutant have to be before it's no longer cannibalism?

[loinburger]

I mean, if you're a mutant preying on humans lost in the woods/desert/whatever, then you're not exactly preying on your own kind, right? So, f'rinstance, if Magneto started eating people then would he really be a cannibal if he weren't eating somebody who could manipulate magnetic fields (by using mutant powers, of course, it wouldn't be cannibalism if he ate somebody who happened to build electromagnets for a living or whatever)? Obviously Wolverine would be a cannibal regardless of whether the super-fast-healing mutant he was eating had an adamantium skeleton or not, because the skeleton was added later -- that would be like somebody saying "I'm not engaging in cannibalism by eating this guy, 'cause I'm wearing glasses and he's not!" And that would be silly.

[Guynemer]

Hmmm.

I think once you reach the Fallout "Super Mutant" stage, it is clearly not cannibalism. Not sure exactly where the cut off is, but it is probably somewhere around dickgirls.

[MikeH]

Just mutated enough that they can't breed, then it's a new species and no longer cannibalism.

[loinburger]

Can't breed as in not at all, or as in the offspring are sterile, or as in the offspring of the offspring are sterile?

[MikeH]

As in, can't produce offspring at all. Or the offspring are dickgirls.

[Lorizael]

Just mutated enough that they can't breed, then it's a new species and no longer cannibalism.

Ding. All potential mutants must rape their victims in an attempt to produce offspring before being allowed to eat them.

[loinburger]

But then they'd wind up eating their own ***, and that's borderline gay.

[Lorizael]

Which, clearly, would overshadow being a cannibal.

[loinburger]

Show me in the bible where it says that you're not allowed to be a cannibal.

[MikeH]

Quite the opposite. Christians are always eating bits of Jesus body and drinking his blood.

Not allowed to be a cummible though.

[KrazyHorse]

Can't breed as in not at all, or as in the offspring are sterile, or as in the offspring of the offspring are sterile?

The second. IMO a horse eating a donkey is not cannibalism.

[Jon Miller]

Shouldn't this be solvable, I mean there are felines/etc which have offspring that are sterile. See if wild cats will hunt them/etc?

JM

[loinburger]

I doubt that anything is ballsy enough to hunt a liger.

[Blaupanzer]

Show me in the bible where it says that you're not allowed to be a cannibal.

Thou shalt not kill. One of those pesky commandments. If all you are doing is the eating, then the only crime would be poor or improper preparation.