Sunday, March 22, 2015

Cannibalism and Hypocrites

On October 13, 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes mountains leaving a Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the middle of the Andes mountain. After all of their food ran out the remaining survivors decided to eat the flesh of the dead in order to survive. A movie was made in 1993 called Alive that told the story of what these survivors went through and what made them decide to resort to cannibalism in order to survive. 

Whenever most people think of cannibalism they view it as the most inhumane thing to do. They think that by consuming another human's flesh they are becoming impure and dirty (yeah because you never had done anything wrong in your life before). Now don't get me wrong, I think cannibalism is the most disgusting thing in the world, but when your on the verge of dying because you don't have any food, then I can see why you would eat another person (as long as they're already dead because killing someone just to eat them is on a waaaaay different level).

Cannibalism occurs all the time in the wild. Lobsters are sometime considered the "garbagemen of the sea" and sometimes they "eat...one another" in order to survive. Most people don't really see anything wrong with this but when people do it you are shunned from society never to be seen again, and you will burn in the fiery flames of Hell for this atrocious crime you committed. What a load of bullcrap! People are total hypocrites (myself included). If you ask me it's like feeding slop to a pig which does have pieces of pork in it - at least it's safe to assume so because who really knows what people feed pigs nowadays.

To be honest, I don't see anything wrong with what the Uruguayan rugby team did. They were dying and they wanted to survive, that's understandable. I don't get why people cringe at the fact that the survivors resorted to cannibalism; had any of them been in that situation they would have done the same thing (heck I would've eaten people too). Plus their food source was all ready dead. It's like communion, eating one thing to benefit the group as a whole. At least the dead's sacrifice wasn't in vain.

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