Is eating parts of yourself wrong or right?
- Thread starter Gileseypops
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Yes, I would just to say "I ate my leg, waddup now?" to people, also I'd probably hold a banquet.
In that scenario, if it was not possible to get my leg reattached, no i would not eat it. if i was starving and there is no food availible for miles, then yes, i would eat my own body for energy. not a leg though, i would need that to walk. probably my left hand. doesn't do too much, compared to the other appendages.
I SHALL CONSUME MY SEVERED ARM AND ABSORB ITS ARM-Y POWERS INTO MYSELF IN ORDER TO GROW A NEW ARM.
But seriously, the last thing on my mind in a crash devastating enough to claim my limbs is "gee i wonder how human biceps taste".
In any case, "right" and "wrong" are so incredibly subjective that I'm not entirely certain what you expect to get from this thread. Are we meant to help justify a decision you've made, or have yet to make? If it helps, I doubt you'll get tossed into ARM EATING HADES for eating your own arm. You might have dreams where your arm screams at you about your betrayal afterwards though.
But seriously, the last thing on my mind in a crash devastating enough to claim my limbs is "gee i wonder how human biceps taste".
In any case, "right" and "wrong" are so incredibly subjective that I'm not entirely certain what you expect to get from this thread. Are we meant to help justify a decision you've made, or have yet to make? If it helps, I doubt you'll get tossed into ARM EATING HADES for eating your own arm. You might have dreams where your arm screams at you about your betrayal afterwards though.
Stephen King actually wrote a story about this. It's called Survivor Type, and was in his short story collection Skeleton Crew.
Generally the reason for amputation is because of mass infection. Which would make it totally inedible. Plus from the car crash it would be filled with contaminents and in your weakened immune state you'd get an infection from it and die.Gileseypops said:Ok, first of all, I want to clarify, I am no cannibal! I have never eaten a person, or myself and would reccommend psychiatric help to anyone who goes about eating another person, or who would deliberately amputate a part of themselves in order to eat that part. That being said, lets paint a scenario....
You have just been in a car crash and tragically lost your leg. Now I'm assuming the procedure for amputated limbs is incineration. However, should you decide that you do not want it incinerated, but instead would prefer to take it home and have it for supper!
Before people say 'it's just wrong', I want people to think not about what society would accept, but whether it is actually wrong or not. After all, it isn't hurting anybody, it is your own choice and with the fact that with Tibetan 'feeding funerals' where the cadaver is ceremonially fed to birds, the consumption of a person is less of a taboo than you might think.
I'm genuinely interested in what people have to say about this one, so discuss away!xx
Yeah, an excellent tale, of a surgeon who ends up surviving a plane crash or shipwreck, don't remember which, but essentially he was smuggling medical grade morphine, so he's slowly starving to death on an island, and he finds himself with only his tools, his skills, and a huge amount of pure painkiller.Jedisolo75 said:
Essentially it came down to 'how much of my body can I live without?'
Yes, was just meant as a throwaway joke, I always figured my name alone gives a clue as to my humour being a little on the dark side, but it did make me think, and not wanting to derail the thread, it does bring up the question, you're slowly starving to death, and there's other people on the island.Horny Ico said:
Do you kill to feed yourself? If so, do you take into account whether they're women or children, when you're already half crazy with hunger and the basic feral survival instincts kick in.
Didn't someone smart once say 'Civilisation is only three meals away from a complete breakdown of society'? I've butchered that quote from hazy memory, but I feel I've got the meaning across at least, that we only adhere to certain rules of accepted behaviour as long as we have it easy, as soon as we had to fight for survival, a lot of niceties would start to slip and our care of the young, the sick and the elderly would fade.
Damn that's pretty grim, but this is a thread about self cannibalism, it was never going to swing around to balloons and kittens.
Unfortunately, what you find is when species start self cannibalising it increases the risk of degenerative proteins known as prions spontaneously arising and causing incurable nuerological diseases. There was a tribe in Papua New Guinea which regularly cannibalised the dead members brains, spreading a prion disease called kuru throughout their community, leading to spasticity, loss of mental function and death from plaques made of tandled prion proteins forming in the brain (spongiform encephalopathy).
The same thing happened with mad cow (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE). Cows were feed dead groud up cows as a cheap meal substitute, spreading prion diseases right throughout the cattle population in the UK and ultimately into humans. That's why auto-cannibalism is bad, even before you tackle the ethics of it.
The same thing happened with mad cow (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE). Cows were feed dead groud up cows as a cheap meal substitute, spreading prion diseases right throughout the cattle population in the UK and ultimately into humans. That's why auto-cannibalism is bad, even before you tackle the ethics of it.