Regarding sober cannibals

The title of this blog comes from a famous passage of Herman Melville's Moby Dick:

"...I stood looking at him a moment. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal. What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself- the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian..."
(Moby Dick, chapter 3)