[Crane tilts his head in acknowledgement. He would explain how closure requires different endings for every victim, but given the overblown response from earlier, he imagines this young man was a victim. So he allows that urge to fizzle and fade.]

Cannibals never are. Most believe themselves above the world and human society, but they always share the same pathology.

[He brings his hands back onto the table, linking his fingers.]

It is that society which affords them the power that transforms them into a taboo. It is easier to pretend they are a terryifying symbol, rather than admit they are just like us.