I'm pro abortion, so why not? It's your body part. There is the problem that there's no real "Cannibals Cookbook" out there, and it's not like there's a whole lot of room for experimentation.
Is eating parts of yourself wrong or right?
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Slightly more disgusting image for you then, before we're born we shead all of our body hair and eat it.BrotherhoodOfSteel said:
Medical fact.
The problem is that it would be unhealthy for you. I'm not sure if this applies to one's own body parts, but you know mad cow disease? Yeah...people can get "mad human disease" from eating human flesh. It has something to do with the prions present in the human body making one go crazy if they come into contact with his/her own.
I know what people put in their bodies. You think factory-farm Beef is bad for you? Try eating somebody who lived on Pizza Pockets.
I don't believe in right or wrong. The only thing I can say is that it's more ethical to eat a part of yourself, since you've consented to that action, than it would be to eat a part of someone else. And, if it's in a survival situation, I think pretty much anything is justified, since the first part of the brain that shuts down in a survival situation is the part that prevents you from eating human flesh.
That said, it could make you incredibly sick if you eat certain parts of any human body - yours included. Fortunately, those parts are usually those essential to life, so it's unlikely you'd eat those parts of your own body.
That said, it could make you incredibly sick if you eat certain parts of any human body - yours included. Fortunately, those parts are usually those essential to life, so it's unlikely you'd eat those parts of your own body.
That sort of thing used to be viewed as a sign of respect by many cultures, but is now often associated with mental illness.
I myself wouldn't be able to do it for a variety of reasons, though I can't say that it's necessarily "wrong" to do so.
I myself wouldn't be able to do it for a variety of reasons, though I can't say that it's necessarily "wrong" to do so.
dittoScrewRulesIHaveMoney said:
And to the answer the orginal scenario, i would take my leg home if only to try it and to sample the taste of human flesh. I am no cannibal and would not kill people for supper even if i had discovered that I tasted yummy.
But, i pretty sure that my answer would chnge if i actually lost my leg. I be too distressed to worry about it.
Look at it this way... bit unhygenic I know, but do any of you ever bite the bits of your skin around your nails? Bite your lip & peel a bit of a layer off with you teeth? Maybe eat a bit of flaked skin? Or even eat a scab? I'll be the first to admit i've done all of these at some point in the past & will probably do them again in the future.
I admit the idea that the OP is saying is a MUCH more extreme version of these but he does have a point.
I admit the idea that the OP is saying is a MUCH more extreme version of these but he does have a point.