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1. The turn of the century brought the World Wide Web into the homes across the world, and along with all of the amazing features it has, it has also created a place for people to bring their sick fantasy’s to life. Armin Meiwes of Essen, West Germany, created an online chat room called the Cannibal Café. Meiwes was searching for a male aged 18-30 that would allow Meiwes to kill and eat him. Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes answered the advertisement Meiwes had proposed and met with him. Brandes came to the house where Meiwes would kill him in a room made to be his slaughter room. Meiwes is reported to have never forced anything and only acted with permission from Brandes. Once Brandes was dead, Meiwes hung him on a meat hook, and ate the body over the next 10 months, freezing parts in the freezer next to pizza boxes. In December of 2002 a college student noticed Meiwes’ advertisement and reported it to authorities. Meiwes would be convicted of manslaughter, and then tried for Murder in 2006; he is currently serving a life sentence.

2. Once an adult, it is reasonable to believe that an adult should know the difference between wrong and right doings. Human beings are given the will to make choices, and not only act by extinct. An adult human being is lawfully given more freedom than an adolescent, but there are still limits that some wish to push. In the case of Meiwes, the actions taken by both he and Brandes would have to have resulted from some sort of sick psychological mental state that does not follow the proper functioning of a human. However, since they are human, and specifically adult humans, it would seem that the activities in which they engage in should not be limited, as long as it is providing a sort of...

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5. Meiwes should be in prison for killing another human, however he should not serve a life sentence. Although Meiwes did commit a murder, he only did so with the expressed consent of Brandes. If Meiwes did this action without any consent of course he would be sentenced to life, and would be categorized as a monster. However, Meiwes did go about his desire in a responsible manner, by insuring that the actions he was partaking in was also desired by Brandes. Although Meiwes is not functioning properly, he is still a human with desires, and whether or not his desires are acceptable to man, the universe should find a way to accept all people, and help detour those like Meiwes away from the mentality he is, so that he can act more properly in the world.