If necessary for your survival, do you think you could resort to cannibalism?

you say that now

i'm pretty sure the industrialized food chain has made cannibals of us all in very fractional ways.
there's some food guidelines for insect parts allowed in veggies/fruits, but there should also be guidelines for allowable human body parts.

It's not the fact of being alive that would make you eat people, it's the fact of starving to death. You don't just disappear in a puff of smoke, you die a long, lingering, painful death.

dont we all?

Poll needs a 3rd "Stephen King's Survivor Type" option - would you eat your own body parts if you had a big enough pile of cocaine to get you through the butchering :D

but I think, honestly, my answer would be yes. If I was hungry enough I'd kill and eat all of you. I just wouldn't eat your placenta.

[spoiler] they taste just like lady fingers! [/spoiler]

more curious about the people who think they just absolutely couldn't do it, even if it was someone who was already dead. seems like an underestimation of what truly facing death by starvation would be like. but i'm pretty sure there were people in the donner party who refused to partake and died of starvation.

the real hitch in this scenario is refusing to eat people means you are essentially volunteering to be eaten after you die. so your moral stance is just you turning into a cartoon cooked turkey in everyone else's eyes.

nah lamp, some people get hit in the back of the head w/ a sharpened coconut while they're not looking and cooked over an improvised campfire

neither slow nor painful

I am p sure I could eat someone who is already dead. Obv can't say what I would do, but I have to believe that I wouldn't kill someone who wasn't already dead.

Tried to think about whether I could eat my cats in a is,lar situation but got too sad and had to stop thinking about it.

The real question thoughts whether you would cut off and eat your own extremities to survive. Xp!!!!

u dont know what happens before that coconut

Is,lar = similar

what if the situation was if you were offered human meat by a culture that deems it extremely rude not to eat it, would you eat it? like REALLY rude, it would really hurt their feelings.

Starvation is definitely slow. An average westerner could survive at least a month, if not more, on water alone. As for pain, not so much, if you only consider the starvation in itself. However, you would grow very weak and could easily succumb at the end by being pecked to death by crows, or something similarly gruesome.

sure, why not

I'm pretty good at carving up a chicken into parts. Butchering a human seems daunting but I think I could manage.

"The Savage Mouth" by Komatsu is a horrific tale that describes the insane side of a man who is overly intellectual and who tries to know his unexplicable self by eating his body.

^^ highly recommended to all fans of clive barker, etc

i just think in certain contexts, we're all capable and to some extent do eat human-derived product, so the trick to eating human meat in a survival situation is to alter the context enough so that it's comfortable.

Tried to think about whether I could eat my cats in a is,lar situation but got too sad and had to stop thinking about it.

I would eat people before eating my cats, definitely.

(And I don't even have a cat at the moment, just on principle)

what's the cutest animal you guys would eat? rabbits, pigs, lambs?

Yes, yes, and yes

zooey deschanel? butters from south park?

I don't think it's about the cuteness, really. More the companionship. Though cats are incredibly cute.

https://www.google.com/search?q=cutest%2Banimal&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hkB_T9OLG6egiALh1LDeCA&biw=1178&bih=723&sei=iEB_T66HPIatiALDusDBAw

which of these animals would you NOT eat

personally, this one gets my vote:

http://www.animal-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/spiderc.jpg

i believe some so-called "cute animals" actually routinely engage in cannibalism

http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2009/09/puppy_nose_bite.jpg

i bet there's a weird inflection point where if you've actually decided to eat one, the animal's cuteness now works against it.
like if you had to eat ethan hawke or willem dafoe (i dunno if dafoe was in alive, i just think he'd taste really gamy and scaly.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

how much does a lb of flesh go for these days anyway?

― the late great, Friday, April 6, 2012 1:53 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Check ManBeef.com.

EASILY

Would you kill the dog or the annoying group member first?

I know my answer.

every time you are swallowing your saliva you are engaging in cannibalism THINK ABOUT IT

WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENS WHEN YOU EAT YOUR BOOGERS

p. sure i'd just leap into a crevasse -- i'm a shitty cook anyway

i have enough trouble rationalizing continued existence even before factoring friend-meat into the equation

no, I always keep a Clif bar in my backpack anyway.

not sure i'd even need to be starving, if they were already dead and cooked nicely. if they were a member of the group that i didn't like, it would even be a handy cover for just, y'know, killing them.

best option would be to survive a fiery plane crash that happens to cook your fellow passengers amirite?

does soylent green count? soylent green is people btw.

SPOILERS

ffs mods can we get that poster deleted that isn't even out over here yet

not into killing other people - who determines who goes first, etc. is a fucked up process I would refuse to participate in.

― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, April 6, 2012 5:18 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ you, my friend, are going first.

i wrote a ten-minute play about cannibalism in lol college.

the central question that i have, as a skinny dude, is whether or not i'd be more likely to be eaten first or less likely. on one hand, i would be skinny and weak in the first place and when instincts turned primal and angry burly dudes started flashing their canines at each other, i'd probably go down quickly. on the other hand, no one would want to eat me because it would be all bony.

if you were a brony nobody would eat you because you would be all brony

save derpy, eat a brony

I think the answer to your question, ZS, turns on whether we're eating people who die naturally (in which case you'd get et) or killing people to eat them (in which case I would).

my haunches look srsly delicious, i've decided.

rip darraghmac he was eaten for his delicious haunches

fingernails and bone marrow is still vegan right?

lol these poll results are v revealing

At least five ILXors are liars.

Poll is eight years old, those five have probably been gobbled up by now.