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Ok..so heres a question for all of you...

You and 10 others are climbing Mount Everest. You get 3/4 of the way up and then all of you fall in a giant hole in the ground. When in the hole...you call for emergency help but if may take a month or more to find you because you are underground (work with me here). There is NO food. If you do not eat..you will all die. One of your partners dies of hunger. Would YOU eat him/her in order to survive?

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Depends if anyone brought tomato sauce....

Could we start a fire and cook him first because you'd proabably vomit raw flesh back out

:D Yup!

Bar-B-Qued... Human, the other white meat!

Could we start a fire and cook him first because you'd proabably vomit raw flesh back out

uhhhhhh....yes you can start a fire..but this hole is made of rock except the top 50 feet up which is made of ice...you may even start a fire every day...for you have a lighter, and some conviniently placed logs in the hole.

If he dies anyway or if he's a creep he's on the menu.



I would also try rocks.

No, I wouldn't try to eat him. But then again, that's easy for me to say now.

I guess I'd pass my time trying to develop photosynthisis and eating dirt.

When the others tell me I need to eat or die, I'll calmly explain to them that humans digest human flesh very poorly. Chances are we'll all die anyway. Then I'll start laughing. And I won't stop until someone puts me out of my misery by clonking me on the head.

I would actually have to kill the person that I was going to eat. Death by any other means is simply unacceptable.

Can't we just order a pizza?

Na, sure you wont know if you were going to be saved or not so whats the point in delaying keeping yourself alive only to suffer longer and feeling bad about eating your mate? Na, I'd be finding all kinds of things to get myself the hell outta there before someone gets hungry and starts looking at me like a juicy hot burger! Anyway, lets me logical here, why would you climb Mount Everest without bringing food with you in the first place.. you'd be dead before you reach 3/4 of it? I've climbed small irish mountains that take 6 hours max, up and down and the first thing I think about doing is getting to the shop to get bottles of water and food for energy before hand!

I would, however I have no idea what human would taste like. As long as I could cook it, I can't say I have any qualms. I didn't cause the death, there is no malice involved in my eating them, I need to be able to survive. Mmmm soylent green ;)

Since I don't believe there is such a thing as objective right and wrong, it is just a matter of personal opinion.

But by the time one of my partners died of hunger, I probably wouldn't have the strength to move/eat. After all, we all die of hunger at a similar rate.

Yeah, but as I said, would you not think about bringing food with you in the first place before you start up the mountain? I mean, how long does it actually take to get up and down Mount Everest?

I would, however I have no idea what human would taste like. As long as I could cook it, I can't say I have any qualms. I didn't cause the death, there is no malice involved in my eating them, I need to be able to survive. Mmmm soylent green ;)

Since I don't believe there is such a thing as objective right and wrong, it is just a matter of personal opinion.
Soylent Green may be made of people. But it looks more like a green bathroom tile than anything edible. Raw Human Flesh on the other hand. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good stuff. :D

I would never attempt to climb Everest in the first place. But assuming I did, mountain climbers take these nifty things that look like little pick-axes. If the walls are ice as you stated, it wouldn't be too hard to climb out with one. Also, if its 50 feet deep, how the hell did we survive that fall, anyways?? :P

Soylent Green may be made of people. But it looks more like a green bathroom tile than anything edible. Raw Human Flesh on the other hand. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good stuff. :D

Well, raw flesh is supposed to be (theoretically) good for your teeth. The reason we need dentistry is because we've developed on to cooking our food.
A femur a day keeps the dentist away :)

I'd climb Mount Everest, but yes, we'd have food with us in the first place and also have those pick axes and ropes to help with these situations.

Ok..so heres a question for all of you...

You and 10 others are climbing Mount Everest. You get 3/4 of the way up and then all of you fall in a giant hole in the ground. When in the hole...you call for emergency help but if may take a month or more to find you because you are underground (work with me here). There is NO food. If you do not eat..you will all die. One of your partners dies of hunger. Would YOU eat him/her in order to survive?

No.

If I was stuck in a hole 3/4 the way up the biggest mountain in the world, starving of hunger. and the only food I had was my best mate and a small Pot Noodle....you better beleive I'd eat him first...and if I had no other food, he would undoubtedly have to give his life for the good of the others, and lunch.
Its not supposed to be all that bad is the taste of human flesh....meant to be like pork

I don't know what nationality is he? Although the snow may be a better choice.

Well, raw flesh is supposed to be (theoretically) good for your teeth. The reason we need dentistry is because we've developed on to cooking our food.
A femur a day keeps the dentist away :)
Yeah, cooking meat makes it all tough and when it gets in between teeth it can be hard to get out. But supposedly human flesh is not the tastiest of all meats. Many animals when they kill people will refuse to eat us unless they’re really hungry. Surly our BO can help attest for that a little bit. All I have to say is thank you deodorant gods.

*Bows and prays to deodorant gods*

yes

Don´t think I am cannibal but due to normal human diet it happens to be that human meat tastes like pork. This has been mentioned by some cannibals that lived in Papua-New Guinea or somewhere near it around 1800 AD

EDIT:whoops. Georgeton said this already but the fact is that diet affects the taste of flesh

i would use his dead body to knock one of the living ones unconcious then i would eat them and start a society of fear with me as king


or maybe i overshot this

At least since it is cold/icy/snowy, they will stay fresh/unspoiled for a while. We would have time to think about whether we were to eat them, or attempt to consume our boots. Do we have boots?

Na, sure you wont know if you were going to be saved or not so whats the point in delaying keeping yourself alive only to suffer longer and feeling bad about eating your mate? Na, I'd be finding all kinds of things to get myself the hell outta there before someone gets hungry and starts looking at me like a juicy hot burger! Anyway, lets me logical here, why would you climb Mount Everest without bringing food with you in the first place.. you'd be dead before you reach 3/4 of it? I've climbed small irish mountains that take 6 hours max, up and down and the first thing I think about doing is getting to the shop to get bottles of water and food for energy before hand!

This is not meant to be logical...just go with me here...and don't pretend you don't get the general idea.

You kiddin' me? Why wait until he died! I'd hit him with a shovel and feast feast feast. If I'm stuck in a hole and you're with me, watch out, cuz I *will* survive.

I would, however I have no idea what human would taste like. As long as I could cook it, I can't say I have any qualms. I didn't cause the death, there is no malice involved in my eating them, I need to be able to survive. Mmmm soylent green ;)

Since I don't believe there is such a thing as objective right and wrong, it is just a matter of personal opinion.

It tastes like pork.

(Not chicken, as some people insist).

Personally, I'd make some rope out of my dead mate's intestines, slice off a couple of spare ribs, maybe some rump roast, and lasso my way out of that hole. I'd then proceed to make my way down the mountain, with my brand new snow-shoes made from various parts of his/her body. :)

In fact, we most likely taste like bear - omnivores that we are.

Regardless - I wouldn't be worried too much about taste at that dire point - I'd be lighting the fire and toasting the skin nice and crispy.

If the person died from injuries sustained in the fall, rather than from some unknown disease... then, given a few days (and the cold will keep it fresh) I imagine most people would be looking at Old Bob with a different glint in their eyes.

If the person was diseased, or died from wasting away - there wouldn't be a whole lot of meat anyway. And what there was, might not be worth eating...

Probably the most pragmatic thing to do, would be to decide up front if the collective was going to eat each other. Then, progressively cull people to feed those that remain, until only two are left, then one eats the other.

Probably the most pragmatic thing from an entirely selfish point of view, would be to NOT discuss it, wait till everyone falls asleep, take that little ice-axe thing and provide the biggest larder possible for one person.

What would I do? It would depend who I was with.

What would I do? It would depend who I was with.

Well said. It would certainly be difficult to eat your child or spouse or best friend....

Well said. It would certainly be difficult to eat your child or spouse or best friend....

Certainly, if I saw anyone looking at my little girl with murderous intent, they better hope they don't fall asleep first...

Well said. It would certainly be difficult to eat your child or spouse or best friend....

I dunno, mang ... when it comes to survival, all bets are off.

I dunno, mang ... when it comes to survival, all bets are off.


Sounds like you better not fall asleep first, or at least not let on to grave n idle that you are hungry for daughter :D

lol

I won't bore you with the whole procedure, but yep ....
http://www.vampyrerotica.com/collection/butcher-human-carcass.html

If you're not supposed to eat people, how come they're made out of meat?

Sounds like you better not fall asleep first, or at least not let on to grave n idle that you are hungry for daughter :D

lol

No worries... Keruvalia would be looking for someone with more meat...

Personally, I'd make some rope out of my dead mate's intestines, slice off a couple of spare ribs, maybe some rump roast, and lasso my way out of that hole. I'd then proceed to make my way down the mountain, with my brand new snow-shoes made from various parts of his/her body. :)

hahah...but do you really thik you can make 50 feet with a persons intestines??

Pass The Salt!!!

Bah! Is my thread dead already? I was hopin for at least 5 pages...

Well, Wisemen, it's kind of a dumb question. Anybody in so desparate a situation would probably eat the dead person. The means we will undertake in the name of simple survival are virtually endless.

A more inflammatory question would have been something like, "Would you eat human meat if it were legal?" Myself, I would(so long as it tasted alright).

Well, Wisemen, it's kind of a dumb question. Anybody in so desparate a situation would probably eat the dead person. The means we will undertake in the name of simple survival are virtually endless.

A more inflammatory question would have been something like, "Would you eat human meat if it were legal?" Myself, I would(so long as it tasted alright).
Well....seing as how my question was very farfetched...Would You eat human flesh if it was legal?