(March 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Unlikely. I'd be in a pretty small subset of us if I did...and I just don't see that as a credible outcome..that I'm one of the few..rather than another among many.

You think that a dozen people on a mountain have any more power to speak about who I am or what I might do than The Walking Dead would......?

You play a rudderless immoral cunt like a pro.

Quote:The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.

Quote:Archaeologists have discovered the first physical evidence of cannibalism by desperate English colonists driven by hunger during the Starving Time of 1609-1610 at Jamestown, Virginia (map)—the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

Quote:In 1981, a team of scientists led by Owen Beattie, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, began a series of scientific studies of the graves, bodies, and other physical evidence left by Franklin crew members on Beechey Island and King William Island. They concluded that the crew members whose graves had been found on Beechey Island most likely died of pneumonia and perhaps tuberculosis and that lead poisoning may have worsened their health, owing to badly soldered cans held in the ships' food stores. However, it was later suggested that the source of this lead may not have been tinned food, but the distilled water systems fitted to the expedition’s ships.[2] Cut marks on human bones found on King William Island were seen as signs of cannibalism.

Quote:NKVD files report the first use of human meat as food on December 13, 1941.[66] The report outlines thirteen cases which range from a mother smothering her eighteen-month-old to feed her three older children to a plumber killing his wife to feed his sons and nieces.[66]

By December 1942, the NKVD arrested 2,105 cannibals dividing them into two legal categories: corpse-eating (trupoyedstvo) and person-eating (lyudoyedstvo). The latter were usually shot while the former were sent to prison. The Soviet Criminal Code had no provision for cannibalism so all convictions were carried out under Code Article 59—3, “special category banditry”.[67]

Instances of person-eating were significantly lower than that of corpse-eating; of the 300 people arrested in April 1942 for cannibalism, only 44 were murderers.[68] 64% of cannibals were female, 44% were unemployed, 90% were illiterate, 15% were rooted inhabitants, and only 2% had any criminal records. The cannibal was generally an unsupported woman with dependent children and no previous convictions, which allowed for a certain level of clemency in legal proceedings.[69]

Cannibalism was by no means widespread and of the millions of inhabitants in Leningrad, only 2,015 cannibals were arrested.[68] Far more common was murder for ration cards.

(March 22, 2015 at 10:57 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I think he just likes his "bling-bling". It's quite common for simple people to judge things on the basis of how shiny they are. If it were up to them - all the financial transactions would be conducted using golden chains and rims for currency...

(March 23, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:

(March 23, 2015 at 3:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Unlikely. I'd be in a pretty small subset of us if I did...and I just don't see that as a credible outcome..that I'm one of the few..rather than another among many.

You think that a dozen people on a mountain have any more power to speak about who I am or what I might do than The Walking Dead would......?

You play a rudderless immoral cunt like a pro.

If you honestly believe that given the choice between starvation and cannibalism, you'd chose to starve, then you are seriously naive. Especially since this exact scenario has taken place though out history.

the will to survive never disappoints.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Quote:The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner-Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas. Some of the migrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...y-science/

Quote:Archaeologists have discovered the first physical evidence of cannibalism by desperate English colonists driven by hunger during the Starving Time of 1609-1610 at Jamestown, Virginia (map)—the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27...expedition

Quote:In 1981, a team of scientists led by Owen Beattie, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta, began a series of scientific studies of the graves, bodies, and other physical evidence left by Franklin crew members on Beechey Island and King William Island. They concluded that the crew members whose graves had been found on Beechey Island most likely died of pneumonia and perhaps tuberculosis and that lead poisoning may have worsened their health, owing to badly soldered cans held in the ships' food stores. However, it was later suggested that the source of this lead may not have been tinned food, but the distilled water systems fitted to the expedition’s ships.[2] Cut marks on human bones found on King William Island were seen as signs of cannibalism.

http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survi...htm#page=7

Quote:NKVD files report the first use of human meat as food on December 13, 1941.[66] The report outlines thirteen cases which range from a mother smothering her eighteen-month-old to feed her three older children to a plumber killing his wife to feed his sons and nieces.[66]

By December 1942, the NKVD arrested 2,105 cannibals dividing them into two legal categories: corpse-eating (trupoyedstvo) and person-eating (lyudoyedstvo). The latter were usually shot while the former were sent to prison. The Soviet Criminal Code had no provision for cannibalism so all convictions were carried out under Code Article 59—3, “special category banditry”.[67]

Instances of person-eating were significantly lower than that of corpse-eating; of the 300 people arrested in April 1942 for cannibalism, only 44 were murderers.[68] 64% of cannibals were female, 44% were unemployed, 90% were illiterate, 15% were rooted inhabitants, and only 2% had any criminal records. The cannibal was generally an unsupported woman with dependent children and no previous convictions, which allowed for a certain level of clemency in legal proceedings.[69]

Cannibalism was by no means widespread and of the millions of inhabitants in Leningrad, only 2,015 cannibals were arrested.[68] Far more common was murder for ration cards.

The underlined portion goes to show what i was saying about people morals going out the window.

Need I go on Saint Rhythm?

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I guess everyone just glossed over the resident Klansman?

(March 22, 2015 at 10:57 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I think he just likes his "bling-bling". It's quite common for simple people to judge things on the basis of how shiny they are. If it were up to them - all the financial transactions would be conducted using golden chains and rims for currency...

Not a word about that, but quoting people in a signature is frowned upon years after the fact...got it.

(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: By the way, you only don't fear death in four cases:
- you're so old that you don't really care any more
- you don't actually face it
- you're a fool
- you're a fanatic or a berserk or otherwise brainwashed

I've read some memoirs (WWI, WWII,Russian & Allies, German) and heard quite enaugh interviews with veterans of Great Patriotic War (Russian World War II campaign) and even talked to some myself and NO ONE has ever said or wrote that they were completely unafraid of death. The most common answer is "only fools aren't afraid". Instinct of self-preservation isn't that is easy to suppress. In fact it's only moments of either complete apathy from tiredness or short moments of last heroic feat when one loses their fear of death on frontline or in other such situation.

(March 23, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: If you honestly believe that given the choice between starvation and cannibalism, you'd chose to starve, then you are seriously naive. Especially since this exact scenario has taken place though out history.

(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: By the way, you only don't fear death in four cases:
- you're so old that you don't really care any more

(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: - you don't actually face it

(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: - you're a fool

(March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Smaug Wrote: - you're a fanatic or a berserk or otherwise brainwashed

(March 23, 2015 at 4:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: I don't know whether this is relevant, but I don't fear death because I'm desperately depressed. I'd welcome it. I've wished that I'd get a terminal disease so that I could die and it wouldn't be my fault. I stay alive only because of what my death would do to others. It's very sad, but I crave death.