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Arguments Against Cannibalism
The human body can go three minutes without, air three days without water, and three weeks without food in the best conditions. Most people will never find themselves in a situation where they will have to decide if what they are about to do to survive is ethical or not. In 1972 a Uruguayan rugby team found themselves debating if eating their friends and family was worth their own lives. Whenever in a survival situation the human mind will do whatever it takes to survive, yet the media and others have judge people negatively when people have turned to cannibalism for their own survival. Cannibalism has been going on since the beginning of mankind and comes in different
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