Thursday, February 5, 2009

I'm so hungry I could eat a human...

Earlier this week we read an article about a plane crash that left many survivors stranded. Eventually, these survivors became hungry. Since there was no food on the island, they faced with a tough decision. Do we die a slow, painful, starving death, or do we eat the ones who did not survive to stay alive. After reading this article, I was of course very grossed out but I was also thinking what I would do in that situation. Well, to be honest I don't believe that my answer could be 100% accurate unless I was actually there. For the sake of discussion and for this blog I will answer with how I think I would go about this. I think that in these circumstances, I would do whatever it takes to survive. If eating a human is the case, I would have to exit societies "social norms" and complete the task to survive. Now of course I would never kill a human for food, I would only eat the already dead ones.

1 comment:

  1. But you realize that the survivors didn't just cast all norms aside - instead they created new norms, a new social construction of reality.

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