I always found this an interesting topic: If you were stranded someplace, (like an island or something) with 9 or 10 other people, and you were all starving to death, would you resort to cannibalism? Would you play the hero and sacrifice yourself? Or would you gang up on another and chow down? As for me, I'd let everyone eat me as long as I'm asleep or passed out or something. I'm so generous! :D Anyway, I'd just like to know what someone else would do.

Hmm, I don't know what I'd do . . but *if* I had to eat a person, I'd make sure that at least my dinner was cooked, and that I had knives, forks, etc. . . I mean, let's still be civilized here as best as we can :heh:

haha :lol: , in my opinion meat is meat, if you're not a vegetarian why don't eat human meat?, what have it different of others meats? (in my opinion nothing :drool: ), ok, it would better if you don't eat the brain and the spine :rolleyes: , however, i'm not saying to kill someone, it would be better eat the first that die :rolleyes: (still, you can always do the same that did "cheff red leg" (or whatever his name was... :unsure: ) when he get trapped in an island for 3 (8??) months with Sanji in the anime One Piece, cut your leg and eat it, he could easily kill sanji (that was young) and eat him, but instead, he gave all the food he had to Sanji and cut his own leg to eat it, both survive and nobody had to eat each other ^_^ )

MMMmmmmmmmmm tasty fresh meat, wheres my sharp rock?

i would never turn to cannabalism...lol i would prefer they not eat me either...plus its justplain disgusting

you know, i dont know what i'd do. i guess i would starve because the thought of eating another human disgusts me. but i guess if i was nearing death... i would go crazy and take a bite out of the person i hated most... :lol:

heh the movie alive comes to mind in this. the movie where the plane crashes in the snowy mountains and people are forced to eat the dead. I cannot resort to cannibilism. both for my own opinion an dthe fact that my religion would not allow it

you don't feel any pain when you're dying because of hunger right?

No

Ive allways been thinking about things like "If the world is in danger and only a death of one person can save it...." or somthing like that, I would never kill another to allow myself to survive. I would let others kill me because I couldnt live knowing I killed someone for such a greedy reason. Unless that person wanted to be killed, then I wouldnt kill the person, just let someone else do it.... But I woulnt eat the person.

ill slash my wrists anytime!

i'd eat worms and bugs first? :think: Ok i can't bear the thought. I'd kill myself for others

Originally posted by Sephiroth@Jun 22 2005, 10:53 PM
heh the movie alive comes to mind in this. the movie where the plane crashes in the snowy mountains and people are forced to eat the dead. I cannot resort to cannibilism. both for my own opinion an dthe fact that my religion would not allow it
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (sp. most likely wrong). And lets be civilized and educated here - it was originally a book, and in case you didn't know - its a true story...

I think cannibilism is just too much for me. Today i was watching this competition where they had to eat these random delicasies like escargot, pigs testicle or even a fish's eye. I almost spewed by just watching it. So if i can't eat those i would never eat a human. So that means i would give myself away.

i will not restort to cannibalism. I'll just starve to death or atleast catch some fish since you say we're stranded on an island.

It's not neccessarily an island. Just pretend there are no natural resources around. Sorry if I wasn't too clear on that :sweatdrop:

I still wouldnt. I'd rather drink sea water than be sunked into cannibalism

I don't think anyone really knows what they would do in that sort of situation unless they have actually been there. When people are forced to make stark decisions between life and death, morality tends to take second place to pragmatism.

Personally speaking, if there was absolutely no alternative to cannibalism I would leave it up to chance to decide who gets eaten first. Ten straws held in a hand; one of them is a short straw. Everyone agrees the person who draws the short straw sacrifices their leg/arm/whatever for the good of the group.

Cheers,

Zeus B)

Originally posted by Sephiroth@Jun 22 2005, 06:53 PM
heh the movie alive comes to mind in this. the movie where the plane crashes in the snowy mountains and people are forced to eat the dead. I cannot resort to cannibilism. both for my own opinion an dthe fact that my religion would not allow it
Let's see how much you think religion matters when you haven't eaten for six days. Just look at the Raft of the Medusa. Or heck, Jews in WWII war camps, when the zero supply order was given. All nice religious people. Normally.

Depends on who your surrounded by. Lets be reasonable people, if it was someone like George Bush, jk. I don't think I would be able to eat it personally, but it really depends on the person for those people able to stomach human flesh

Your emotions also plays a big role in making decisions as well. No matter what I still wont give in to cannibalism. And I'll make sure i wont.

That makes me wonder . . if you were to eat a person, *who* would you eat? Would you rather it be a friend, an enemy, or a stranger?

None of the above. If it was an enemy, then i'd probably be killed by them first. I think that eating others would be bad, but i could eat myself if i was forced too

[QUOTE]I don't think anyone really knows what they would do in that sort of situation unless they have actually been there. When people are forced to make stark decisions between life and death, morality tends to take second place to pragmatism. (by Zeus @ Jun 24 2005, 06:46 PM)


Agreed. and i think those who said they'd sacrifice themselves for others might (i said might) not have the guts to do it.

I dunno, after not too long your companions would start to look really tasty :eat:

Actualy, eating your self is an answere that will end up killing your self.

After a while of no food, your body literaly dirgest its mucle and fats. Sonn you will be all skin and bones. I would rather starve then kill some one else.

Originally posted by Dreams-Creation@Jun 26 2005, 08:38 PM
Actualy, eating your self is an answere that will end up killing your self.

After a while of no food, your body literaly dirgest its mucle and fats. Sonn you will be all skin and bones. I would rather starve then kill some one else.
and that is what led to anorexia and other eating disorders. However I am surpised that scientists dont exploit this so they can make a pill that stimulates the body to eat its own fat so we dont have to worry about being fat ever again.

Because we dont know how to stop it. If we arnt deprived of food, and the body thinks it needs to eat it self, it will be out of homeostasis for a while, and puting it back in homeostasis will be hard, because we were eating through out th whole time making it almost impossable for the body to know when to eat it self.

The metabolic pathways for fat are sooo complex, trust me x.x if it was easy, scientists *would* have figured it out earlier, but they haven't, haha, so yeah . .

Actually there are fat-burning pills on the market :mellow:

A super effective fat burning pill was developed a decades ago. The fat burning part was easy. Its stopping the pill from working afterwards that was the hard part.

This pill was too efficient. It made obese men become normal, to skinny to skin and bones within a single month (i think). No matter how much they ate. These new diet pills on the market are the extremely less efficient offspring of the original drug.

Throughout this whole post I was trying to remember what the drug was called and I failed to recall. I remember it had something to do with the aspartame/ malate shuttles..

now here's the big question. Do the fat burning drugs today REALLY work?

Originally posted by Al@Jun 25 2005, 03:15 AM
That makes me wonder . . if you were to eat a person, *who* would you eat? Would you rather it be a friend, an enemy, or a stranger?
By the time you're ready to eat someone, you'd be in such a state of delirium that it doesn't matter who's who...

Originally posted by Hiei@Jun 27 2005, 04:13 PM
now here's the big question. Do the fat burning drugs today REALLY work?
Only as part of a calorie controled diet. :P In reality, they only spead up your metabolism by 1 - 3.5% because anymore appears to have the side effect of going through positive feedback (keep going until a big event, in this case.. Death).

now here's the big question. Do the fat burning drugs today REALLY work?

I see some one has already answered it, but what the heck!

Yes. The problem is if the obease see how easy it is to lose weight, some may take comtroll of it can use it out of direction and kill them selves.

*sigh* This is going way off topic...

Originally posted by Sinbios Zefiris Ark@Jun 27 2005, 12:10 PM
By the time you're ready to eat someone, you'd be in such a state of delirium that it doesn't matter who's who...
Haha, I'm just talking about a matter of preference, out of curiosity.

0.o I would like to die a quick death at my own hands rather than seeing people eat each other...no generosity here when it comes to cannibalism... :D

I would never eat humans. I'm not a vegetarian and I'll probably end up becoming one someday (there are so many synthetic meats out there it wouldn't matter). Personally, I'd just starve to death.

this is dumb...think about it...if u were stranded...AND if u ate everyone...wat would happen next? lolz...think about it...u would still die neways...so i wont reult in canabilism...ill jus go kill myself....

it's a question of survival. unless there are no other edible foods around, I think I'd opt for cannibalism as a last resort. of course the ultimate last result would be to kill myself. however, there is such a thing as Hope. So I guess I'll also keep on hoping for someone to come along and save us before we start eating each other. but for how long? mmm... until I'm delirious with hunger and have completely lost my rational thinking so that when someone comes along and finds us and returns us to civilization, I'd just say I ate everybody up during a temporary loss of sanity. =)

i would attempt to swim off the island. :heh:

:blink: i would never eat a person. ...that's just nasty!

I think if you got to the point where you were severely delirious with hunger, you'd start to see your human comrades as walking hams, pork chops, or ribs.

I would eat myself before i eat someone else... I couldnt do that to someone else

yeah, but do you think your ethnics could hold up to starvation?

yes. :blink: you don't know where ppl have been! besides! i know how to catch fish and crabs and such w/ my bare hands.

if there were other sources of food around, even coconuts, you'd probably be ok for a while, but I'm talking about extreme situations where there is NO food. I'm lucky that I haven't been in that situation but can you imagine the fear, the anxiety, and the confusion in knowing that you are slowing dying from starvation? I think it would screw up your sense of values. The only thing on your mind would be to "eat something!!", and not "oh, my morals dictate that I shouldn't eat another human being"

My God would take care of me...so i'd be good. i still wouldn't have the nerv to eat someone...i mean...what're you supposed to do? say "hey, can i eat you real quick, i'm starving..."

well, let's hope none of us here faces that kind of situation...I don't want to find out.

me neither... lest there would be bbq DiamondSeraph

me neither... lest there would be bbq DiamondSeraph
LOL or I, I'd probably be the first to be eaten

why do you say that? you think you taste good? XD

who me?? nah I was just joking

na, i was talking about ccskung

why do you say that? you think you taste good? XD
no I wasn't talking about taste...but come to think about it... (yuck :bleh: ). I think I'd be first because I don't run very fast, so I'll be easy to catch.
:EDIT: this conversation is getting a little weird

XD...how about, if we were in a situation like that...i'll give you a ten second head start.

alright, I'll remember that ASW :lol: it'll give me time to climb a tree or something...oops I just toldyou my potential hiding spot, damn! <_<

aha!!!!!! *points finger at you* ok...back to the topic. (and you're right...it is getting wierd...)

i think that u would get to a point were u have lost controle of ur body, and just start attacking people. :mellow: that gives me the creeps

i don't think i would ever do that...:think:

No...no...no I-I Im pretty sure I'd eat myself

mmmmm, barbecued people
*did i jsut say that*
ummm, :shifty: i'll just hide somewhere and kinda wait until you're all weary and asleep then kill you all and eat you :shifty:
:heh:

:hunter: Not when I have my gun!

um, now i know, if im ever stuck on an island with aznanimedude, kill him first, and ask questions later :heh:

:shifty: >.< i must hide before i get eaten

I'm so tasty, eat me now lol jk

*takes a bite out of seraph*
mMmm.... tastes like heaven...


(note: seraph > seraphim > angel > heavenly.... bagh nevermind)

I don't know about these hypothetical questions, since it seems highly unlikely that you will be stranded somewhere with absolutely no natural resources whatsoever and such a place exists, nonetheless...

I think I would be able to find a way out of wherever the place is. Because no matter what or where, if you can get in, you can get out.

I don't know about these hypothetical questions, since it seems highly unlikely that you will be stranded somewhere with absolutely no natural resources whatsoever and such a place exists, nonetheless...

I think I would be able to find a way out of wherever the place is. Because no matter what or where, if you can get in, you can get out.

What about a plane crash in a remote mountain chain like the Andes, I'm fairly sure something like that did happen and the survivors did have to resort to some kind of cannaibalism to survive.

You didn't say their handphones are damaged. So they can basically call out for help. Then get rescued by helicopter so they don't have to eat each other.

What about a plane crash in a remote mountain chain like the Andes, I'm fairly sure something like that did happen and the survivors did have to resort to some kind of cannaibalism to survive.

The Andes, and the majority of other mountain ranges, have animals and plants that live there. On the Andes specifically, I think there are some llama-like animals and plant brushes.

I think I should direct you to this website Dominate Alive (http://members.aol.com/porkinsr6/alive.html)

I think that's interesting and all, but they didn't have to do that... : http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/andes_animal_page.htm

I think the point was they had too, anyway I'm sure that animals are generally not inclined to allow themselves to be eaten.

Yes, I guess they just let the hunger go to their heads instead of thinking rationally. Or maybe the animals just lived to high on the mountain for them to get to.