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Looking at it from today's mindset....

posted 9 years ago by April-151-CT
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Looking at it from today's mindset, where we've now seen pretty much everything and how far all envelopes have been pushed in the society that we now live in, where nothing shocks us or surprises us anymore, would it be all that bad of a solution to use what we could to survive if we actually were in that exact same situation? I mean really? If there were 40 MILLION or so people living in every city in this country and we had no food, wouldn't it make sense to let whomever wants out to be able to end their lives and then we recycled them into something which would help others survive? Like how we recycle our organs so that others can live. Would it really be such a bad thing? I mean it was a horrific thought to Hestons' character in the film, and to film-goers of that era. But to us now, how we think and feel about things now, wouldn't it be pretty much accepted and approved of? I mean if there's no food and the ocean life was dying out, what other choice would there be really if we were to survive as a species?
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[–] swaggypete 8 years ago

Do not each other people as it is not a sustainable food supply. Eat roaches and rats instead. Or dogs, cats, and squirrels.

[–] jim-85613 8 years ago

No reason to believe that there would be a population explosion except in the third world countries. The US and Europe the growth is from the immigrants. White people are not the ones having all the children and Black people are using abortion for contraception. Basically it is the Hispanics, Asians and Arabs with the high birth rates.

As to people being okay with eating their dead in any form I don't see that as an option.

[–] AmeriGirl26 (12708) 6 years ago

There's one small problem, (besides how horrific it is to eat one's own species). Are you aware of the bacterial disease that comes from eating human (and simian) flesh? Apparently all primates carry a bacteria (which is normally harmless) that attacks the nervous system of people who have eaten too much of it. It causes a form of "the shakes," and eventually leads to death. Please keep that in mind when contemplating eating human flesh to feed an over-populated planet.

[–] liscarkat (16968) a year ago

That's it. I've eaten my last chimp.