26 August 2008, 7:28 pm
My boyfriend and I were watching The Ruins last night. There was a part at the beginning where there was a guy who was kind of obviously going to die. The first thing out of my mouth (because they were stuck on top of a thing-I don't know what it is called) was to eat him. Then my boyfriend and I went off into a debate about cannibalism. He said the reason that people don't eat people is because they would taste gross (which is a true fact that people would taste gross, because of our diets). What I said is that people don't eat people because it is not socially acceptable. If you were in an accident (think plane crash in middle of nowhere, where the only thing you could eat was the dead passengers) the group of people would become the society, I mean it would totally put peoples beliefs and morals to the test, but not ethics because that is societies unwritten law. If it was deemed okay, would it not then become socially acceptable, therefore okay to take part in cannibalism? Also, I believe it was a tribe in New Zealand that was cannibalistic, because they believed it to be okay. Here is an actual event where people decided to survive (after all animals are supposed to try to survive). A rugby team in 1972. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2320283.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571 Can you imagine having to eat your friends/teammates? Here is a recent link of an almost Cannibal event THIS YEAR! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/2120220/Survivors-of-Chile-plane-crash-considered-eating-dead-pilot.html So my whole point in this is: Who was right? and What is your take? I understand that this is a seriously weird, and kind of morbid question. I would like to state that I am not a cannibal, just in case people are going to assume that. I personally would not eat another human under any of my current situations. And I really hope I am never in a situation where I have to. Aureen-I heard about the brain thing linked to cannibalism, it was on CSI a few years ago. Probably more shows as well (non fiction)... read more
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