Talk:One-eyed ghoul/@comment-207.161.114.234-20140711222909/@comment-72.39.23.176-20141002200840

Agh. Doesn't make sense. Your digestive system doesn't differentiate the source of your food! Regardless of what type of flesh it is (human, pig, cow, chicken, insect), if it's protein - it's going to be broken down as amino acids through digestive enzymes in your digestive tract.

Anyway, let's just suspend our disbelief and pretend that our inner logic doesn't exist. My only explanation would be that humans are so "special" and provides a specific spiritual energy expressed though various body parts; i.e. a human being's individual "soul", "chi", "life force",  thus, giving ghouls sustenance when they consume humans. Because this spritual energy is individualized, the human mother can consume another person's soul energy by eating human remains, somehow, transferring this energy to her ghoul-human hybrid fetus.

Why does it have to be flesh? Can't a blood protein shake be sufficient enough? Why is it necessary to kill anybody? Why not a black market for particular donated human organs? It's happening already in India & China among the poor and disenfranchised.

Humans & ghouls must be genetically compatible in order to procreate. But the ghoul-human hybrid fetus probably produces foreign ghoul cells that provokes the human mother's immune system to produce antibodies against ghoul cells and increases the chances of the human mother's body to reject the fetus and cause a miscarriage. Therefore, in lieu of a sanitized and safe medical treatment, such as an injection of special immune globulins, to counteract the rejection process, the human mother must consume human flesh. (Of which is probably not organic nor wholesome, but definitely free range).