The Cannibals

From Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Crusoe's discovery of cannibal remains on the shore and his moral debate about whether to attack them raises the novel's most fraught ethical questions about cultural relativism.
Chapter 12

Crusoe discovers the shore strewn with bones and skulls from cannibal feasts and vomits in horror, then debates at length whether he has the right to kill men for practices natural to their culture.

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