RE: Cannibalism
February 20, 2015 at 3:36 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2015 at 3:40 pm by TheRealJoeFish.)
(February 20, 2015 at 3:06 pm)Losty Wrote:(February 16, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Jenny A Wrote: But, in famine, and other emergency situations, I couldn't condemn anyone for practicing it; provided of course that they did kill not their dinner.
Just curious, how wrong would it be for a person starving to death to kill and eat another person?
This is the question they ask new law students on the first day of class. For a lot of (United States) law students, the first case they encounter is the British case R. v. Dudley and Stephens from 1884.
Basically, there were three guys shipwrecked. It got to the point where they were all going to die if they didn't get something to eat, and the two bigger ones basically said "meh, your time's up d00d. sorry" to the other, killed and ate him. They were then rescued. After a scandalous, crazy, wacky trial, they were sentenced to death, with "necessity is not a valid defense to a charge of murder" the legal principle underlying the case.
They were technically sentenced to "death, with a recommendation of mercy," which meant that although they could theoretically be executed it was very likely they would be pardoned. They ended up serving six months in prison.
P.S. I done got ninja'd
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