What if you're on a desert island, a ship lost at sea, or whatever, and you and some others are starving... and someone dies. Is it moral to eat them? Could there be a day when human beings might clone their own flesh to feed themselves, in some future where food is scarce?
2007-01-09 07:24:18 · 16 answers · asked by I Ain't Your Momma 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Is it in your nature to eat a human being? I understand we humans are omnivorous, but we shouldn't behave against our nature. Besides, we are social animals. We need one another in order to survive. What would happen if we eat each other? Then the natural concept of mating and making offsprings would make no sense and no relevence. It is in our nature to need one another to stay, to need others to stay, and to reproduce. I am fond of Aristotle's findings, and most of his ideas arise from the natural elements of things. Do as your nature says, and never go against it, he said. And guess what, I believe he's right!
2007-01-09 08:03:58 · answer #1 · answered by lebanese_gentleman2005 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh... I'm sure PLANTS will still be available to eat, and I'm sure there will still be COWS left to clone (if necessary).... And if you are on a desert Island or whatever, I think if you all agree before any death occurs that it would be ok to eat the deceased, then it would be morally acceptable... But if one requests to be buried after death, then that wish should be respected.
2007-01-09 07:41:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, most Western cultures consider this wrong, and I don't think Chinese or Japanese beliefs allow it either, although some places in Africa practice cannibalism as a funeral practice, to pay homage to the dead, and some aboriginal tribes on varoius isolated islands did it in times of war or hunger...I think it has more to do with the respect for the dead/holiness of man than real practicality; though it can spread diseases.
2007-01-09 07:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by Elle B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some Chineese and Japs too I think do eat e/o. E.g. grandparents or whatever... & no I didn't hear this from some strange source; I got that straight from the horse's mouth. in fact, I sympathise.
Think about it; you die you have a choice of being burned and disposed of, for what? You have a choice of being burried and left to rot for the maggots or to help a tree grow if nothing else...
Or you have a chance to literally live on in your relatives in a way that man has been seeking to do for centuries. You will be IN your loved ones... well some of you anyway, the rest you can use to plant that tree or feed those maggots or whatever.
2007-01-09 07:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by Can I Be Your Pet? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In cases of disaster, people have resorted to cannibalism. None of us can say what we would resort to if faced with the decision to eat the flesh of the dead or die ourselves. Cannibalism is wrong in most cultures and religions of the world (and within many animal species), but in the case of survival, people are not always concerned with acceptable behavior if it means life or death. So, my opinion is that it is wrong, but faced with a tragedy I may choose to do what is wrong in order to live.
I do not think that we will get to the point of producing human flesh for food. If faced with such a scenario as you listed, we would have the technology to produce animals or plants for food use.
2007-01-09 07:36:38 · answer #5 · answered by TeacherTerrey 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think I could. Why not fish? If your on an island there must be things to eat beside humans.
2007-01-09 07:34:32 · answer #6 · answered by us5we2 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is
Perhaps you remember these slogans coined by Nancy Reagan
'Just say no, to cannibalism!' or
'Friends don't let friends eat friends!'
Forget all the cute jokes like the one where one cannibal who turns to the other and says " I hate my brother-in-law " and the other says "just eat the noodles". Eating people is just wrong!!! Didn't you see 'Soylent Green'?!?
2007-01-09 07:46:15 · answer #7 · answered by Marmalade P. Vestibule III 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually if you think about it, there's nothing wrong. Sure with society's bias today it seems horid. But when it comes down to it, it is just an evolved animal eating some meat.
2007-01-09 12:36:16 · answer #8 · answered by JIMMY j 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See the movie Soylent Green! Cannibalism can cause neurological disease!
2007-01-09 07:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Morally, I don't think it's so bad. But there's a disease you can get from habitually imbibing human flesh.
2007-01-09 07:31:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋