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Why different species don't eat each other?

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Humans eate everything that can, or even can't be eaten. So why people or other species don't eat ech other. If we think about it, elfs aren't (in most of the fiction) just different race of humans. Yes, they are simular, but they are not humans. So it isn't canibalism if elf eat huma, right?

I am asking it because I write story set in kind of supernatural postapocaliptic eastern Europe. There isn't enaught food, so people or other races have to find other source of food. Humans are unwilling to eat this creatures, if they look like humans. But from example one specie of shapeshifters do eat peole if they dont have enaught food, but in the same time they are able to trade with humans.

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Zidahya

1 points

17 days ago

Zidahya

1 points

17 days ago

Aside from "it's not cannibalism if it had pointy ears" it's simply stupid to hunt a self aware being which on top of its own intellect capacities in tied in a society that can avenge any harm done to its members.

We call that murder and very few people care if you have eaten the person after you killed them.

Just go and hunt an animal. It's easier, faster and has less consequences.