What If Question for Veggies and Vegans?!
My answer for myself is: Probably. In a situation like this, I think it would be okay. Your thoughts?
Answers: In the unlikely event that you were in a situation (like say, a plane crash in the mountains) where your options were to eat animals or starve, what would you do? Rescue is a possibility, but there is none yet. Lets take it a step further. Several people died in the plane crash and there is absolutely no food. Would you eat a person?
My answer for myself is: Probably. In a situation like this, I think it would be okay. Your thoughts?
I don't like to eat meat because I think it is better for me and for the earth to have a plant based diet, and because it is not necessary to torture animals for mass produced meat. The scenario you present has me starving to death , which is not good for me or the earth and does not discourage animal cruelty. I'll munch on the flight attendant if it keeps me alive and s/he is too dead to care.
Honestly I can't see myself doing that it's disgusting. I would rather explore in the woods and survive off plants.
This one's been done to death (although, to be fair, questioners usually have us stranded on desert islands, so a plane crash in the mountains is a welcome break.) Anyway, if there are animals, they're eating something and it's a good bet that that means there's plants. That's what I'd start out with.
Pointless to ask "what if " situation questions because they are really unanswerable until you actually face them. Having said that, no matter how strong your convictions are about anything, an extreme situation or crisis will always pose a challenge to your adherence to that conviction. Nobody can answer a "what if" question with absolute certainty.
It is just as easy to ask : what if you are an omnivore but all the animals died out for some reason. would you be able to survive on vegetables alone? or would you eat your fellow man, dead or alive, instead?
As for the plane crash story, that happened to that peruvian ( i think) rugby team that crashed in the Andes back in the 70s. I am sure not not one of them thought " What if this plane crashed and i will have to eat the dead body of this person next to me, will i be able to?". But it happened anyway.
In a situation like that (which I've obviously never been in and hope to never be) hunger would take over, and I assume you would have no choice but to eat whatever/whomever was available.
Yes, I would go ahead and eat it. Survival is the most important at that point.
I would be thinking about my family and how devastated they would be if i died,especially when i didn't need too!.besides the thought of ME being eaten would be enough to keep myself alive!
My answer is: yes if it's the only way for me to survive.
Being vegetarian is important to me but not as important as avoiding death. But I think it's unlikely that I'll run into this situation.
I would absolutely eat a dead person; anyone who says otherwise has never faced starvation. and I would definitely do this before I took the life of another creature. To do otherwise would be cruel and wasteful.