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

What I think now, in the comfort of my home, with a full belly and a nice cuppa, is probably irrelevant should this situation ever arise.

cuppa WHO

the idea that respecting the dead = preserving their dead body as long as possible is ultimately cultural and prob a good thing to trend away from

I was going to say something about some people living by the credo of not doing to their loved ones in death what they wouldn't do to them in life but then I saw the massive rationalization for necrophilia lurking behind that statement and now I am just looking at my subconscious like this:

http://hellinahandbasket.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/skeptical-baby-looks-askance.jpg

I put human flesh on my rider just so I have a little every night in case I do at some point find myself having to subsist on it

I am imagining you with a huge Dagwood-sized placenta sandwich, chomping away merrily backstage while the apocalypse rains down

"...can you push stage time back 10 minutes and get me some bromo? that placenta reuben's really rearing up on me"

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

oz of prevention iirc

xpost Would it be bad after three days? You hang game for longer. I think you've cut and prepared and hung that juicy human flesh in a cool, dry place, you're OK. If, on the other hand, you've got a whole corpse and you're in the rainforest then it might be unappetising fairly quickly. But if you were in the rainforest you might be able to find something else. Cannibalism as a necessity seems to arrive in icy circumstances, where there is no opportunity to forage for anything else, and where the meat must keep pretty well. I think your cooking options might be limited, so a carpaccio or a tartare might be the best way to serve it.

Sorry: that should be "I think IF you've cut and prepared …"

if you starve in a rainforest I kinda think you must be a little stupid

Just in case anyone finds themselves stranded in a rainforest over the weekend, here's quick guide to finding food.

God, "a quick guide". I keep missing words today.

I dont value being alive enough to eat ppl

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

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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

laura ingalls wild er

Crazy thing is that they prob didn't need to eat human flesh. America's coastline was a bonanza of naturally available foods: ocean and freshwater fish, shellfish, game and gamebirds, but also scavengable stuff like mushrooms, berries, kelp. The colonists were highly suspicious of such foods and shockingly ignorant of most survival skills.

NO THEY HAD TO

yr all a bunch of savages smdh at these poll results

Was reading about mass cannibalism during the Bolshevik grain requisition Povolzhye famine in '21. The more morally defensible cannibals rationalised eating the dead to survive, but fucking cannibal cafeterias run by human hunters, profiteering during a famine is too much to take. I'd guess similar grotesqueness occurred during Mao's great leap forward as well.

The stealing of corpses from cemeteries became so common that in many regions armed guards had to be posted on their gates. Hunting and killing people for their flesh was also a common phenomenon. In the town of Pugachev it was dangerous for children to go out after dark since there were known to be bands of cannibals and traders who killed them to eat or sell their tender flesh. In the Novouzensk region there were bands of children who killed adults for their meat...

Moreover, the craving for human flesh which starving people can easily develop once they have eaten it was not peculiar to any social class. Hungry doctors often succumbed to eating it after long spells of relief work in the famine region, and they too stated that the worst part of the experience was "the insuperable and uncomfortable craving" which they had acquired for human flesh.

Well, once you've killed and eaten a human being, seeing all those people just walking around has to be maddening, like those old cartoons where the starving man on the raft floating mid-ocean imagines the guy on the raft with him's head turning into a roast turkey or whatever...

I love that old cartoon sight gag, it is brutal and funny at the same time.

I like the South Park episode where all the adults get snowed in and they resort to cannibalism _that night_

that is a great ep

During an 1874 election fight in Tranmere, a 'local cannibal' allegedly attacked a canvasser with no provocation - he 'chawed' him and bit off part of his lip. A newspaper report concluded that 'cannibalism cannot be tolerated, even in Tranmere': pic.twitter.com/ftaNIXB8Jv

— Victorian Election Violence UK (@VictorianEV_UK) April 15, 2020

'cannibalism cannot be tolerated, even in Tranmere'

classic bantz

If I can eat ass, I can eat calf

what if it’s not necessary for your survival and you just fancy sampling a bit of long pig

asking for a friend, like

I think eating members of Longpigs is quite permissible tbf

brb gonna start a ‘which longpig would u eat’ poll

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.