Cannibalism Makes People Why Do People Survive

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Have you ever seen a movie where someone eats another person? It's disgusting! Do you think people should be able to eat someone already dead if they had to survive and not get in trouble for it, I think so. Some people in survival situations have been charged for eating people dead as cannibalism. People shouldn't be held accountable for eating someone dead in order to survive, One reason is it's the only chance they have to survive. Another reason is the persons already dead so it really doesn't matter. This is about the donner party and how they ate people and how others make fun of them for doing it. People should not have to be held accountable for eating some one in order to survive as long as that person was already dead. People who are surviving in …show more content…

This next one talks about how people of the donner party eat their dogs before waiting for someone to die first then eat them. People of the donner party did eat people but they weren't alive. They should be held accountable for cannibalism. “On the 6th morning an exhausted stanton let the others go on ahead of him; he remained behind to die. On the 9th day the remaining 14 for the first time openly broached the subject of cannibalism,which has already been on their minds.”​(Diamond)​ They were going to wait for someone to die and had a conversation if it was alright with each other to do so. Men had a better chance of living so it was probably the men that survived better. “By looking at the effects of age and sex simultaneous, the advantage the women had over the men becomes even more striking. Most of the female deaths were among the youngest and oldest, who were already doomed by age. “​(Diamond) People are disgusting for eating people because it's a sick crime or a survival thing. “Maybe people should be held accountable for cannibalism because it a sick thing to do.” Modern day cannibalism is fascinating because it is widely seen as extreme anomaly of

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