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Possibly if they will their body to you? I'm not sure though, I've tried to look it up and have had no success. But that's my best guess as to how you could get it.waacman said:
Couldn't have said it better myself.:bow:No*s said:I can see several reasons for it. First, as a Christian, I see the human person as sacred, and this includes their body. Eating a person is denigrating their humanity when a human being is sacred.
The other reasons I see are practical. Really, how well can you love other people if everyone is a potential steak? Just look at those luscious thighs...
Imagine living in a society where the guy in the alley feels he has the right to eat a human being. They no longer even need to worry about properly disposing of the body; it could've been bought in the market place.
There is the issue of revenge that's already been touched on. You just offed this big man's wife because you were hungry for ribs. You better hope he's a vegetarian in that case. Likewise, imagine eating the recently deceased. People go ballistic over their pets being desecrated, and most people value people more than animals. In either scenario, you would have a short life expectancy if it got out.
The disease issue, also aforementioned, plays heavily into it. Some illnesses just couldn't be cooked out, or worse, may simply linger if cooked improperly. Imagine, again, getting AIDS from your last BBQ sandwich *yech*.
As the final reason, I can't imagine a pizza made from human sweet bread tasting as good as pepperoni.
That would be that soccer team. One by one some of them died. Whether from freezing or from injuries sustained in the crash. The others eventually started to eat the dead in order to survive. Supposedly, some of those that died had even told the others that when they died to go ahead and eat them. In cases like this...it is a matter of survival. It is food, meat, sustanence that could not be attained in any other way. If I were in the same situation I would tell the others I was with to eat me if they so needed.waacman said:
Well, murder is not an excuse normally for cannibalism. However, there is a real danger to cannibalism in a health sense. It is far too easy to transmit deisease - prion diseases, like kuru and Alzheimer;s, virus diseases like AIDS, Hepatitis, bacterial diseases like sepsis, flesh-eating bacteria, protozoan diseases like Dengue Fever and Malaria, parastical infections like tapeworms, trichinosis, etc.The Grey Wolf said:
Given the situation of the Andes polane-crash survivors, I would probably have done what was necessary, but boy would I inspect that corpse among the others to determine if it appeared healthy.GeneCosta said:
As a rule, I think people are disgusted by the idea but can understand doing it if the options are cannibalism or death. I think most religions agree that saving a life overrides taboos on what you can and can't eat.waacman said:
Kosher law is, for instance, suspended in time of famine. Though many rabbis would still refrain even if it meant death by starvation.standing_on_one_foot said:
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My responses were only partially tongue-in-cheek, Buttercup. Your arguments really are logically flawed.Buttercup said:
Really? But you will have to die sometime. It's inevitable. At what point would the quality of your life come into play? Personally, I don't see death as something to be avoided at all costs. I am not looking forward to suffering, by any means, but when it comes to "soaking in someone's flesh" just to live, I can pretty much guarantee that I'd choose death. What is it about your life that's that great? Maybe I should want to trade places with you!GeneCosta said:
Because that could potentially keep you alive long enough to get back to life where you don't have to face that kind of situation, which can be a pretty nice place to be. I mean, if my options were dying now or doing that and dying a few days later (and I were guaranteed of that outcome), then I might not prolong things. But if I think it's possible that things will improve in the long run, you can bet I'd be willing to let the situation get temporarily worse.Squirt said:
