Quote from: tvbcof on December 14, 2016, 05:02:22 PM

Quote from: Tyrantt on December 14, 2016, 03:23:49 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on December 13, 2016, 03:21:45 AM

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Here's another question: If you had medical equipment to perform an amputation, would you eat your own leg? (I think I might, but I'm not sure.)

ok, but let's say that I have the equipment and know how to do a proper amputation so I don't bleed out to death. I probably would but would keep that as the final last resort, also I'd probably just cut my muscle a little like from my thigh so I keep the leg if possible.

Of course these are last resort (and fairly absurd) scenarios. How about this:

There has been a bad accident. You and someone else had amputated legs. Both of you and both legs were put onto a medivac jet so fly to a hospital which can do complex re-attachments. The plane crashes and everyone but you are killed.

Would you eat your own leg or the other guy's leg first?

Edit: I believe I would eat my own leg first. Probably less chance of getting kuru disease (like poor Hillary) and it was my own handiwork which constructed the thing in the first place. Biologically I don't see any risks. Back when I was prone to nose bleeds I remember swallowing pretty big globs of pudding-like blood which coagulated in my sinuses so it's probably not all that much different.

In that scenario I'd eat my leg first because it's simply my leg and I'm sure that it's not infected or that I;'m not infected in some way and would eat it and deal with the fact that I'm eating my leg a lot easier.