Could you eat the flesh of another human to survive like they did in that movie Alive?

Question

Assume they were killed by accidental means, and you are in a snow pack, so the meat stays fresh. Assume also that it is the only source of nourishment.

Answer 1

Though normative I am a vegetarian I do not think it immoral in such circumstances to eat human flesh already dead via an accident.

I do not relish the idea but if it was the other way around and I was dead I would not be offended if people ate my flesh doing what they needed to survive. In fact I would be honored that my body helped save their lives.

Answer 2

I don't think you can really say for sure what you would do in a particular situation until you are in that situation. I'm a vegetarian and I can't even imagine being in a situation where I would eat any animal flesh, let alone human flesh. But I think if I was in a situation of eat human flesh or die (and I didn't have to kill anyone to get the flesh), then a survival instinct would kick in and I would do it. I pray I am never in a situation like that though!!!

Answer 3

No I do not think so. It is like making a choice between god or evil. I'd rather die than violate a human being to eat than make a choice to live. If you eat a human being then you succumb to evil just to survive. The guilt and anguish you have to go through life to remember the experience all the time, it will change a person really fast and the madness that comes with it. That is why alot of them they just cannot cope with it after the ordeal in their life. It is very inhuman at the same time choosing to succumb with it is insane.

Answer 4

All that anyone can do is answer this question theoretically. Theoretically, probably most people would say "No." However, Alive is more than a movie - it was real life. No one really knows what they would do unless they are actually in the situation. An answer someone gives here in the luxury of warmth and comfort and plenty of food might not be the same as the answer given in the stark reality of starving and freezing to death on a bleak mountainside.

Answer 5

I'm sure you could eat someone else but the question is would you? I don't care how hungry I was I wouldn't eat someone else. I'd eat my clothes, suck on the snow etc. You can live up to a month without food. (Water only a week but you said there was snow so I'd melt that for water) I am sure within a months time I could find something to eat besides my frozen companions! EWwwwww

Answer 6

No. I could not look at another person and think of desecrating their corpse just so I could stay alive. I cannot even iagine where anyone owuld be ok with eating another human, much less frozen dead body. Its sickening. I guess I would have to starve to death.

Answer 7

Nobody can answer this question except somebody who is in that situation, and life or death becomes a choice.

Then, it would seem that the weaker will perish, and the stronger will live off of their carcass.

That's what goes on in the wild, and man takes on an animal attitude when pressed into this circumstance.

You or I have never even been close to this kind of dire straits.

So, we can merely speculate.

Answer 8

relies upon, quite... First i ought to commence by technique of asking, is a few thing quite "moral" or "immoral"... nicely, I ensue to imagine so, yet, the complication is being positive. for instance, issues that looked moral and properly at the same time as i became youthful, became out to be stupid blunders, yet hindsight is 20/20, they say. enable's get philosophical right here, and look into the theory of morality itself... those who believe in morality have a tendency to fall into one among 2 camps (forgive me if i'm jumping to conclusions right here from some previous philosophy e book I study years in the past), moral relativists, and moral absolutists... First, i imagine you quite ought to ask your self that you're, i'm an absolutist... Absolutists do not ought to draw close what absolutely the morality is, they in basic terms ought to settle for that there is a extra appropriate code of habit to stay by technique of... i'd say, on condition that you probably did not homicide them first... EDIT: Bwahahaa! Do your research before establishing your mouth first, childrens, or you'll sense as stupid as I do now... i'm extra of an ethical universalist... Wow, those products is deep.

Answer 9

i would assume that i would spend the last of my days praying that my family and friends do not spend their entire life thinking and or worrying about me. and that i'm sorry for wasting this precious gift of life and that my sins would be forgiven. if anyone decides to go the cannibal route and finish dinning on the frozen human remains, then truly run out of food and noone ever find you, well???

Answer 10

I would like to be noble and say I'd die first, but then again, I do have a strong survival instinct. I'd eat human meat before I'd eat something REALLY nasty like boiled okra or brussel sprouts.