One of the advantages/drawbacks of working from home is that you have the opportunity to watch significant amounts of day-time TV (with only one eye of course, the other eye is, like, totally concentrating on work). My personal preference is for Law & Order, but if I can't find that then I usually drift over to the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, or maybe even the National Geographic Channel.
But anyways.... I was watching a documentary the other day on the Uruguayan plane that crashed in the Andes in 1972. The survivors of the crash were trapped for over 2 months and became 'famous' because they resorted to eating the bodies of those who died in the crash in order to survive (see the Wikipedia article on plane crash for more info). The film 'Alive' with Ethan Hawke was based on the accident.
So, I think you can guess where I'm going with this moral dilemma thing, and you'd be right.
The mother and sister of one of the survivors died in the crash and this survivor talked in the documentary about his dilemma - as the 'food' became increasingly more scarce, should he allow other people to eat his mum and sister in order to stay alive? Or should he eat them himself to prevent others doing so?
Irritatingly, he didn't say what he chose to do, so I present the dilemma to you. If you were in the same situation, would you:
1) Allow other people to eat your loved ones, but abstain yourself?
2) Chow down on Steak au Famille rather than let others tuck in?
I asked Omar what he would do and he didn't answer - I assume this means that he definitely would eat me :-)
Personally, I haven't decided yet, although all this talk of meat has made me hungry...
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