Cannibalism

[The Last Conformist]

I'd easily chose cannibalism over starving to death in an "Alive!"-style situation.

 

[-0blivion-]

A news story in the UK at the moment. A man was released from a mental instituition and went and killed somebody. He then fried his brain with butter and oil and ate it. Police found him in the house, topless, covered in blood.
When asked what he had done, he said 'I ate his brain with butter'.'It tasted nice'

Not a particularly nice story. He was sentenced to life lately.

BBC

 

[punkbass2000]

My understanding of why cannibalism, in general, didn't "make it" through the natural selection process, is that it promotes disease. Essentially, the underlying logic is that one way for a disease to prosper is to be transmitted by food. When you eat a human, you are likely to be afflicted by any disease it may have had. If you don't humans, however, the disease needs to able to survive in the animal/plant that you're eating as well as being able to afflict you, which is supposedly a much more difficult proposition, evolutionarily.

 

[Jawz II]

ive always said, if i was in a situation where i had to choose, eat humans or die, there would be no choice, after all, what is a dead person, if not biological waste? (i used to say it alot, specially around girls, good way to mess with their heads )

its not a person anymore, its just meat!

i wouldnt even wait for day 7 or 8 or whatever without food, id be eating some people day 1!

i might even like it too much, and start eating other survivours, if im in a group

why eat old food, when theres fresh?

 

[Perfection]

I was going to have some human flesh yesterday, but I was fresh out of fava beans.

 

[IglooDame]

It is in the same category as liver - I'd eat it only if it were necessary to my survival.

 

[thetrooper]

I was going to have some human flesh yesterday, but I was fresh out of fava beans.

And a nice chianti perf?

 

[The Last Conformist]

It is in the same category as liver - I'd eat it only if it were necessary to my survival.

Your lacking faith in the tastiness of liver is disturbing.

 

[Syterion]

Speaking of cannibalism, what are the prime cuts of a human? The choicest meat? Is it the butt(good mix of muscle and fat), or calves maybe(equivalent of drumsticks)? Perhaps some cartilage is a nice appetizer. I really don't know, and I am scared to say that I want to find out.

 

[Mise]

I'd never eat another person. That's just sick. Do unto others etc.

 

[nonconformist]

I'd never eat another person. That's just sick. Do unto others etc.

You''re vegetarian ergo, you don't count

(actually, vegetarians shouldn't, as they don't eat meat anyways).

 

[The Last Conformist]

I'd never eat another person. That's just sick. Do unto others etc.

I can't think of any reason why, if I were dead, somebody shouldn't eat me if he or she thereby saved his or her life.

 

[Mise]

For the record, I'd eat a pig if I was starving and dying

@TLC: It's still sick for me. If i did manage to swallow it, it wouldn't stay there for very long. And I don't think I could bring myself to do it anyway.

 

[nonconformist]

For the record, I'd eat a pig if I was starving and dying

What about the uniform?

 

[GenMarshall]

I personaly see Cannibalism very barbaric, I personaly dont want to sink down to that level.

 

[Jawz II]

What about the uniform?

cheap one, but a good one

 

[Yom]

Good point, Id probably eat Soylent Green, but not dude steaks.

So, you'd only eat it if it were processed human flesh? How does that make it better?

I can't think of any reason why, if I were dead, somebody shouldn't eat me if he or she thereby saved his or her life.

I can. It wouldn't be very sightly to see Lenin out on display with bites taken out of his forearm, would it? It would be disrepectful to your person (even if you don't exist, you still want your image and person to be remembered (and revered ), right?). Plus, if you didn't die of trauma and were frozen like in the Andean crash, you might be resuscitated far into the future (yeah, it's not likely, but I'd still prefer a 1 in googol chance of surviving to 0).

 

[Xen]

I honestlly dont know if I woudl ro wouldnt; i would need to be faced with such a situation; its a situation, mind you, I hope never to face in my existence.

I have a feelign it woudl be a no though.

 

[punkbass2000]

"So, you'd only eat it if it were processed human flesh? How does that make it better?"

Well, people tend to have psychological boundaries. We all draw lines at certain places, and any line you draw is going to seem arbitrary and silly to someone. I, personnally, could never really kill a chicken and skin it, etc. I just can't handle things like that. But I can eat chicken from the store, etc.

My Psych 101 teacher, Prof Burris, is (or was at the time, anyway) working on "The Ameoba Self Theory". They were proposing that there's a few levels that we use to make ourselves distinct from the world, and only certain things were permissable based on various reasons. To demonstrate, on the first or second day, he was talking about this, and then proceeded to spit into his coffee mug, and then continue drinking his coffee. I was one of the only people that I was aware of who wasn't a least mildly grossed out, and many people seemed to find it outright disturbing. Yet, of course, we all drink our own spit all the time. Different stroke, different folks, etc.

 

[The Last Conformist]

People tend to have a ritualistic approach to hygiene. I sometimes wonder what's the biological explanation for that is.