Which one sounds better--- 'cannibalism' or 'eating human flesh'?
I was going through a text about ancient civilization. There, I found a sentence which says, "Some ancient human being recognized even cannibalism." After reading that sentence, I started to think that, as the word 'cannibalism' is disgusting, the writer would had written this sentence in another way e.g. "Eating human flesh too was practiced by some human beings in ancient period." What do you think about which one of them sounds better--- 'cannibalism' or 'eating human flesh'?
Cannibalism is the technical term for eating human flesh, so I don't see an issue with using it. In fact, saying "eating human flesh" sounds disgusting to me. It's also unnecessarily wordy.
