Interesting! I do sort of accept the (head)canon that grubloaf is pretty literal, but I also don't really have a huge inherent problem with cannibalism. (I mean you know, don't kill people, and be respectful of the bodies of the dead when possible. Otherwise, my biggest squick with it is probably my general meat/bodies/death problem.) I always figured that the intention was more or less a "wow trolls are awful/gross," I mean logically that's what it was meant for right? But I just did the "wow fascinating" and went with it? I mean, it seems likely. "Why do you care? They're dead, they're not using that body and I'm hungry." That sounds about right, to me; I've always figured that their moral system is sort of "human squick but really it's all relative" and usually gets justified with PRACTICALITY! and things.
(But food for thought: the jade caste is supposed to be sort of motherly right? And I mean what do trolls even know about parents, but also Mama's Cooking is probably a Universal Constant. (I mean smaller things are, after all.) And I just think that nobody on Alternia would think for a second that the secret ingredient to Jadeblood's Cooking is love. Everybody knows it's exactly the same but the ingredients are fresh.)
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Date: 2013-09-07 02:46 am (UTC)(But food for thought: the jade caste is supposed to be sort of motherly right? And I mean what do trolls even know about parents, but also Mama's Cooking is probably a Universal Constant. (I mean smaller things are, after all.) And I just think that nobody on Alternia would think for a second that the secret ingredient to Jadeblood's Cooking is love. Everybody knows it's exactly the same but the ingredients are fresh.)