Your plane crashes in the Andes and you survive....OK to eat a dead person?
2007-06-11 09:46:59 · 40 answers · asked by MAD MOMMA 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
No. I don't believe so. It's a matter of life or death. If you don't eat, then you won't survive. There are actual documented cases of disaster survivors practicing cannibalism. I don't recommend pulling a Hannibal Lector and going psycho. Cannibalism can make you sick.
2007-06-11 09:53:27 · answer #1 · answered by Tazooby 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Sin? Sounds like you really wanted the religion or philosophy section. I suspect that most people would do what ever it took to survive when actually placed in difficult position. However we never know till we actually experience it. As to the sin aspect, from a Judeo-Christian perspective the body is only the temporary residence of the soul. As such it has little value once the soul has departed. While I do not pretend to speak for Christians or Jews, I don't believe it would be a sin.
During the days of settling the west in America the Donner Party got trapped by winter in the mountails and did the same for survival.
2007-06-11 09:55:36 · answer #2 · answered by brotherlove@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a vegetarian, but if it was starve or eat a dead person...well, I'd do my best to choke down a cold butt cheek or two. I don't think it's a sin, as long as they're already dead.
2007-06-11 13:50:49 · answer #3 · answered by Ahni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess that depends on whose definition of sin you use. People like to pretend that we're so intelligent and evolved, but take away food and water for a few days and see what you get. An animal that will do most anything to ensure its survival. Go ahead, chomp down on the deadies.
2007-06-11 09:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ethically, yes it is acceptable in most major religions.
Healthwise, no. Unless you got on the plane starving, the bodies will have been lying around for some time. Perhaps the snow will preserve them, perhaps not. Maybe they have a disease, maybe they don't.
2007-06-11 13:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Ninja grape juice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No problem. Once a person is dead they don't really have any need for their muscle tissue any more. I think it would be more of a sin not to use the resources at ones disposal in order to survive.
Of course, killing someone for their muscle tissue is quite a different matter...
2007-06-11 09:51:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Whether or not it's a sin depends a lot on your personal beliefs. I'm not religious so, for me, there's no element of religion or spirituality involved.
As far as a court of law is concerned, necessity is not a valid defense.
2007-06-11 09:50:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it would be a sin, because I have been taught to use the methods available to me to survive. However, I would certainly try to find some other form of food to live off of before I ate human flesh.
2007-06-11 09:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by sirantihero 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
In this case yes it's OK.
But it's also OK in other cases,
say like you ran out of hot dogs in the frig or anything like that.
:o)
2007-06-11 15:23:07 · answer #9 · answered by leave me alone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its called survival so i think if a person is at deaths door then there wouldn't be a choice so i say yes.... How gross though!!!
2007-06-11 09:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by deborah_012003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋