Kalefa Sanneh

Maybe it's a way of thinking, well, me and people like us, we don't eat people.

And so if I encounter someone and I hear that they do eat people, then those people are somehow maximally different from me and my people.

But there's an irony here, right, which is that for those people in Spain at that time, cannibalism represented human beings at their worst, right?

Right.

And for us, many of us now, enslavement represents human beings at their worst.

Yes, yes.

And so the idea was if we suspect – from what you're telling me, the idea is they were like, if we suspect that human beings are being at their worst, we're going to do the thing that future generations will think of as human beings at their worst.

Exactly.

They had gotten... Obvious question about the sourcing.

Hmm.

This suggests...

that this would be a very valuable product because there's a finite supply of mummies?

Was there a sense about why these people were being hanged?

Or was the idea that we're hanging so many people, we can just grab some of the ones that happen to have red hair?

But in a non-taboo sense, that seems like a big distinction, right?

What do you mean?

Are we killing people so we can eat them, or are we doing weird things to corpses?

And I'll say on your podcast right now, you know, hundreds of years from now, if something happens to what remains of my corpse, it doesn't seem like that big a deal.

It seems completely fine.

Yeah, so I don't know.