It depends on 2 very important things. Would I get in trouble? And what do they taste like? Beyond that it's me or them and I'd rather it wasn't me.
An... interesting hypothetical
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Well I?m already flung in a pretty miserable situation as it is. Optimism was left back on Earth.hittite said:
Hypothetical questions about personal morality steeped in absolutist logic shouldn't make sense.Old Trailmix said:
"Intelligent answers" aside, it's basically asking you "Are you murdering asshole, or a suicidal emo idiot?"
If we were to reword the moral question slightly, it could be "If you encountered other friendly, sapient life, would you purely take advantage of them to survive?"
My own choice: I value sentient/intelligent life (no matter how miserably worthless our species can be at times), so unless I'm going to leave my mark on them, I'll die alone.
I wouldn't be happy with the outcome (obviously), but at least I won't die a monster.
Honestly,? It depends very much on how they would react.
Just because they are friendly and peaceful now, that doesn't mean they still will be when you start munching on some skulls(or whatever the fuck they have to support they're face equivilant.)
If they will react to the eating of them with violence, then I will simply live as an outlaw, on the run from the crazy alien bastards. If not, I guess it all works out.
So I guess, either way, I'd eat them, without hesitation.
Just because they are friendly and peaceful now, that doesn't mean they still will be when you start munching on some skulls(or whatever the fuck they have to support they're face equivilant.)
If they will react to the eating of them with violence, then I will simply live as an outlaw, on the run from the crazy alien bastards. If not, I guess it all works out.
So I guess, either way, I'd eat them, without hesitation.
I would probably go insane from hunger and start kidnapping the natives. Become an urban legend.
If it was set in stone that nothing on this planet was edible but the flesh of the native sentient creatures, I would go to them and do my best to ask them if I could have the flesh of condemned criminals, or other recently dead if it were culturally okay. I'd do whatever rituals/etc. that they demanded be done, if they had some sort of procedure for respecting the dead, if that were their requirement. I would make it clear that I would leave their planet as soon as I could, to go back to where I could survive without this.
If there was no way home and I would have to murder to live, I would ask them to provide me with as painless a death as possible, rather than starving or slow poisoning.
If there was no way home and I would have to murder to live, I would ask them to provide me with as painless a death as possible, rather than starving or slow poisoning.
And... they totally wouldn't kill me for attempting to eat them.
Riiiiight.
Fuck it, I'm dead anyway. Might as well pull the trigger.
Riiiiight.
Fuck it, I'm dead anyway. Might as well pull the trigger.
If the alien flora and fauna were poisonous to me, why would the sapient aliens be any different? Did their brains somehow get their amino acids all mixed up or something? Anyway, to answer your question, how many of them are their? Are there enough to make a decent meal, yet not so many I couldn't take them in a fight?
How about this is a ridiculous hypothetical.
Real life ethics are not as sharp cut and sterile as most "ethical questions".
Real life ethics are not as sharp cut and sterile as most "ethical questions".
Presumably the native need some sort of sustenance, so you'd just eat that. If, however, it was an alien race that existed without the need for eating they'd have no idea what you were trying to do. In which case trying to eat one of them will be so totally unfathomable to them they'd probably take offence to it.