Have you ever seen a movie where someone eats another person? It's disgusting! Do you think people should be able to eat someone already dead if they had to survive and not get in trouble for it, I think so. Some people in survival situations have been charged for eating people dead as cannibalism. People shouldn't be held accountable for eating someone dead in order to survive, One reason is it's the only chance they have to survive. Another reason is the persons already dead so it really doesn't matter. This is about the donner party and how they ate people and how others make fun of them for doing it. People should not have to be held accountable for eating some one in order to survive as long as that person was already dead. People who are surviving in …show more content…
This next one talks about how people of the donner party eat their dogs before waiting for someone to die first then eat them. People of the donner party did eat people but they weren't alive. They should be held accountable for cannibalism. “On the 6th morning an exhausted stanton let the others go on ahead of him; he remained behind to die. On the 9th day the remaining 14 for the first time openly broached the subject of cannibalism,which has already been on their minds.” (Diamond) They were going to wait for someone to die and had a conversation if it was alright with each other to do so. Men had a better chance of living so it was probably the men that survived better. “By looking at the effects of age and sex simultaneous, the advantage the women had over the men becomes even more striking. Most of the female deaths were among the youngest and oldest, who were already doomed by age. “ (Diamond) People are disgusting for eating people because it's a sick crime or a survival thing. “Maybe people should be held accountable for cannibalism because it a sick thing to do.” Modern day cannibalism is fascinating because it is widely seen as extreme anomaly of
It is widely “frowned up” to eat people, but this social norm was violated due to the circumstances and need for survival. It is even a worse violation that the survivors were eating the meat that belonged to the bodies of their friends. The survivors also ate non-meat portions of the bodies, which I feel violates social norms even further than eating just the meat. For the conditions, social norms needed to be violated to allow for the survival of the people. The bodies were also used as supplies, such as feet warmers, which also violates social
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In McCarthy’s novel The Road, one of the main issues deals with cannibalism and the moral/ethic issues of survival. Though McCarthy depicts cannibalism negatively in this post-apocalyptic world, it is apparent that cannibalism is necessary for humans to survive when there is no real food to eat. Whether they know what’s actually good vs what is actually bad, they still have a reason to try and stay alive even though things are absolutely terrible around them. Staying alive, to carry the fire for the good of humanity. In a world where everything is just coming to an end, people resort to eating each other in order to stay alive. Where there are bad and good people, but what does it actually mean to be bad? Eating human beings or not helping those people in need of help?
The Donner Party experienced harsh measures and had to come to extremely important decisions regarding survival. Many still deny the possibility that the party resorted to cannibalism in spite of a serious lack of proof and virtually no records of the events stating otherwise. On the other hand, many just “want to tell the story of their life over those final months, not just of cannibalism. [They] wasn’t to restore the humanity to the members of that party – and to their descendants” (Bailey, 1). Despite such controversy, the party has ultimately been linked to cannibalism, and based on the events, that is most obviously what occurred.
“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind” (Genesis 9: 5-7). If God created man in his image, what does eating a fellow human being suggest? We would certainly agree that it is wrong to eat the image of God. Unlike vices like murder or lying, cannibalism is hard to justify even when you’re deserted on an island with a few others with no food in sight. However, to believe that cannibalism is wrong or unnatural in every case might make us ignorant of what it can tell us about the breadth of human culture or about the balance between revenge and justice. Either way, our stance on cannibalism depends on our understanding of what it represents and the role it plays, as reflected
The article Eating Christmas in the Kalahari by Richard Borshay Lee was about an anthropologist who wanted to by an ox for the tribes to eat on Christmas day so they can dance and everyone could get full. The whole article was a long trick they were playing on Richard they were telling him the ox he bought to eat for Christmas wasn’t going to have enough meet for everyone that it was all bone and it was old and about to die. It turns out in the end it was fat and full of meat and everyone had enough to eat they ate it for a couple days after. It turns out that’s the way the people talk about food they don’t want anyone to get a big head and raise their pride they are afraid that it will create an individual who will feel his is superior
They acted savagely, not knowing what they were doing. The boys did not take a second look at what their actions were. They had let their malicious urges control them. He came to be disguised. He may come again even though we gave him the head of our kill to eat.
Hannibal Lecter Undoubtedly somebody with the desire to eat another human has gone through some life altering event in which they're not the same after. During World War 2 in eastern Europe, Hannibal's parents were killed by burglars going through houses to steal supplies. Him and his sister were captured, and as the winter dragged on food supplies ran out. They grabbed his sister, and took her away. She never came back, and the group used her for food. From no treatment or support
The story begins when the five individuals, all members of the Speluncean Society, are trapped in a limestone cavern as a result of a cave-in. Rescue operations commenced once the individuals did not return from the exploration. On the twentieth day of this debacle, radio communications were established and all five explorers discovered that they would not be able to survive if one individual is not consumed as food. A pair of dice was used to determine who would be consumed. Roger Whitmore, who proposed this cannibalistic idea in the first place, decided to withho...
In many communities of the past, stealing a neighbor’s livestock or other animal was a common problem. Many thieves would butcher the stolen animal and cook it for dinner. However, simply possessing chicken soup or a nice beefsteak could not be definitive proof of the thief’s guilt. The crook had to be caught with the blood of the freshly killed animal on his hands to proven guilty ...
Cannibalism in a survival situation may be different, if it can keep you alive (as mentioned previously it is a main goal) long enough to get rescued, is it ok to resort to it? If there are dead members of a group, and you are starving, would you not consume their body(ies) rather than die of
I now know that meat is a sacrifice that only they will know. Every life has some meaning whether it be to someday become the leader of the free world or to eat, get so fat that you can break your legs, be killed systematically and feed one family. The biggest cliché that has ever been spoken goes something along the lines of ‘It’s the wheel of life that keeps on spinning. The faster we move
Intentionally avoiding flesh eating first came into place as a part of rituals for short-lived purification. The teaching of Pythagoras of Samos, a philosopher, in the fifth century BC is the first recorded teaching of avoiding flesh eating in the Mediterranean. He taught that kinship of all
should be a choice of death or life. I am not saying who should make the