What would you do if you were in a situation where canabalism was the only way surviv

[Onceler]

I for one would drink the blood and eat the flesh to keep alive.

 

[randomrogue]

You basically have two choices. Live or die. It really comes down to that. Any reason you choose to die, rather than eat, is stupid.

 

[piasabird]

You have to be pretty desparate to resort to cannibalism.

In most places you can find something that might be edible. People in North Korea eat the bark off of trees. In Utah they they learned from the Native Americans that you could eat the bulbs of the lillies that came up in early spring. Other survivors often would even eat shoe leather after boiling in and chewing on it. Conditions would have to be very extreme.

You could just take the long walk. Better to die than eat human flesh.

People have survived in very harsh conditions.

 

[Tsavo]

I'd break out the fava beans and a nice chianti.

 

[DaveSimmons]

KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce and some ribs? Mmmm, that's good eatin'

Stay away from the brain and spinal cord though, the prions could give you the shakes.

 

[Moonbeam]

The important question is why anybody would raise this theoretical question to themselves or others. What would be the motivation for an answer like:

"I for one would drink the blood and eat the flesh to keep alive."

I hear only an affirmation of the usual particularly Western notion of the importance and centrality of ego to our thinking, that 'I would never allow any feelings for others get in the way of my survival, that the self is more important than any social morality.'

We all feel a need to stoke our neurosis and feel our mental aberrations because we all know unconsciously that we are sick. This is my opinion.

 

[RearAdmiral]

If that was the only way to survive, I wouldn't expect to survive much longer beyond that anyhow. Do we have water? I was actually thinking about this the other day and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't resort to that.

 

[smackababy]

Cannibalism was commonplace among sailors, as it was a Custom of the Sea. Shipwrecked, marooned, or drifting sailors would draw lots for who gets to die and be eaten.

Would I eat a person if the need should arise? Of course. Would I try human if it were on the menu of some exotic restaurant? Probably, if it wasn't extremely expensive and I could be assured the humans were grass fed. I couldn't imagine how bad a modern American would taste though. With all the garbage we put into our bodies, it must be awful to eat.

 

[sandorski]

The real question is: Do you Kill or do wait for someone to die?

 

[sm625]

It is never really an issue because we have all these death cults. The culture of death always precedes the type of events that can lead to cannibalism. Take Hitler and Stalin for example. Two men put in power for the specific purpose of purging both their populations. That was the real final solution that you did not read about in the liberal history books. Men like that always come along in dark times. The dark energies of the collective culture summon them like demons, and they do the bidding of the dark energy.

The same force is evident in all these school shootings. Eventually it will spiral into a mass purging similar to Hitler vs Stalin, if the people continue down this road. It really becomes a case of the blind leading the blind; a massively dumbed down apathetic populace hateful of one another, full of contempt and loathing, and a growing fear that resources will soon be gone and the possibility might one day arise that people may have to eat each other to survive. It is merely the thought of such things that summons the Hitler and the Stalin. These leaders are merely the personification of death itself, though historians obviously do not frame it that way.

If you havent read about how bloody the eastern front was in WWII then perhaps you should.

 

[Pulsar]

There is a Stephen King short story about a drug trafficker with a medical degree who ends up on an island after his plane crashes. He has a load of heroin but not much else. As he begins to slowly starve, he uses herion as anathesia and cuts his own limbs off and eats them one by one.


OH, and drink the blood and eat the flesh.

 

[Murloc]

I don't know as I've never been that hungry.

 

[woolfe9998]

It is never really an issue because we have all these death cults. The culture of death always precedes the type of events that can lead to cannibalism. Take Hitler and Stalin for example. Two men put in power for the specific purpose of purging both their populations. That was the real final solution that you did not read about in the liberal history books. Men like that always come along in dark times. The dark energies of the collective culture summon them like demons, and they do the bidding of the dark energy.

The same force is evident in all these school shootings. Eventually it will spiral into a mass purging similar to Hitler vs Stalin, if the people continue down this road. It really becomes a case of the blind leading the blind; a massively dumbed down apathetic populace hateful of one another, full of contempt and loathing, and a growing fear that resources will soon be gone and the possibility might one day arise that people may have to eat each other to survive. It is merely the thought of such things that summons the Hitler and the Stalin. These leaders are merely the personification of death itself, though historians obviously do not frame it that way.

If you havent read about how bloody the eastern front was in WWII then perhaps you should.

I know plenty about history. It's the "dark energy" thing I find perplexing. Unless you mean it as metaphor.

 

[woolfe9998]

Try watching the movie "Hunger." It's on Netflix streaming. Great movie, if you can stand the subject matter.

 

[bononos]

I for one would drink the blood and eat the flesh to keep alive.

Are you talking about drawing lots and killing the unlucky person to eat or hacking up the dead for meat?

 

[5150Joker]

I'd rather die of starvation than resort to cannibalism.

 

[Onceler]

I am talking about eating someone who is already dead, I would never kill someone unless they were trying to harm my family or myself.
I would rather starve or dehydrate than kill someone, but if they are already dead that is a different matter.

 

[smackababy]

A lot of bold claims of idealism in this thread. "I'd rather die than take a life to save my own" is easy to say when you aren't starving and incapable of finding other sources of food.

I suppose some people will starve themselves on principle alone, but 99.9% of the rest of the world, would kill you while you try it.

 

[radhak]

A lot of bold claims of idealism in this thread. "I'd rather die than take a life to save my own" is easy to say when you aren't starving and incapable of finding other sources of food.

I suppose some people will starve themselves on principle alone, but 99.9% of the rest of the world, would kill you while you try it.

Not true. For the average, modern-day civilized person, another live person is not food and cannot be seen as food very easily. If it were just two people from urban USA (say), most probably they would just waste away to extreme weakness before they realize there's real meat within reach, and maybe not even then. It'd take a lot of effort (or a sick mind) to look at your friend and think of killing him for food.

Even a dead person does not automatically appeal as a source of meat. Read about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster to see how much effort and time it took for them to take that step (they were there 72 days!). In many other disasters, rarely do people start eating others even in extreme hunger. The recent building crash in Bangladesh had at least one lady stuck in the debris for 17 days, and she ended up dehydrated and starved even though three of her friends died in that space. She said she used one of the bodies as a pillow, but not as food !

 

[SlitheryDee]

KC Masterpiece BBQ sauce and some ribs? Mmmm, that's good eatin'

Stay away from the brain and spinal cord though, the prions could give you the shakes.

So that's why Denzel showed his hands to Tom Waits in "The Book of Eli" to prove he wasn't a cannibal. You learn something every day here.

On topic. I'm pretty sure I would eventually partake. Gotta have some ground rules though. No eating anyone until after they die of some natural cause.

 

[smackababy]

So that's why Denzel showed his hands to Tom Waits in "The Book of Eli" to prove he wasn't a cannibal. You learn something every day here.

On topic. I'm pretty sure I would eventually partake. Gotta have some ground rules though. No eating anyone until after they die of some natural cause.

I remember reading a study about a tribal ritual in Papua New Guinea involving cannibalism and the people who would partake would develop a syndrome very similar to mad cow disease. When confronted about this, the tribal leaders response was similar to "you're a foreigner, what do you know?". The same researcher had likened it to the response he received in Britain in the late 80s, early 90s when he wouldn't eat beef.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

I remember reading a study about a tribal ritual in Papua New Guinea involving cannibalism and the people who would partake would develop a syndrome very similar to mad cow disease. When confronted about this, the tribal leaders response was similar to "you're a foreigner, what do you know?". The same researcher had likened it to the response he received in Britain in the late 80s, early 90s when he wouldn't eat beef.

CJD is what Mad Cow disease is called in humans and while it is very rare things like inbreeding and cannibalism as well as the spread from bovine has caused an increase in some societies.

Any meat contaminated with marrow (ANY bone marrow, not just spinal) will carry these prions (if the animal/human have these prions that is), it should be noted that while these prions (and a whole heap of other prions that no one has even heard about) are lethal (they basically make your brain into a sponge) we couldn't live without a multitude of other prions.

CJD is short for Creuzfeldt-Jakob's Disease if you want to look it up.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Oh, and yeah, i'd drink the blood and eat the flesh. Considering the chances of contracting CJD from a random set of 10 persons i'd not be more worried about that than i would be about eating beef.

 

[alkemyst]

Most here would be my meal.

 

[Soundmanred]

Most here would be my meal.

Sooooo gay.

not that there's anything wrong with that.