Greetings to all Happy weekend, in Weekend-engagement week 155, they ask us what we prefer: starve to death or resort to cannibalism? This is a very disturbing question but at the same time it serves to reflect on the human condition and our beliefs For my part, I never imagine attempting against the life of another human being, but I have also seen how in cases of self-defense people have killed another, there the reason is the fear of losing their lives, what happens when the risk is to die of hunger, there i believe that no person should kill or another because my religion says that i must not kill and that is what makes us human, when a person kills another it is something that should not be for no reason. I believe that he never resorted to cannibalism and I prefer to die of hunger.

But I was thinking that never in my life have I been in a situation of hunger that could put my life in danger, I remembered a piece of news that was known in the 70s and of which even Hollywood made a movie, it was about a group of athletes Latin Americans, they were from a Rugby team who traveled on a plane with their coaches and family, this plane fell in the Andes, in a snow-covered area between the mountains and for that reason they could not find the fuselage of the plane, so the survivors passed isolated for a long time in cold ground that had no food, so the way to survive was to eat those who had died. In other words, these young people and other survivors ate members of their family and friends, until finally after months they were able to get out of there and get help.

I began to think about the mental state of these people, on the one hand none of them killed another to eat it, these people were already dead but even so they were still loved by them, in my culture the deceased is respected, so much so that we bury and take care of his grave, we bring him flowers, we see the desecration of graves as a serious crime because it is a total disrespect for the body of the deceased. I don't know what causes hunger in a person, I don't know if it can make him completely crazy for a moment, that's why I think that even if I say no, I've never gone through something similar and I can't judge the case of those survivors, to They were a kind of heroes who did not give up until they managed to get out of that inhospitable and frozen place, for my God must forgive them, they deserve forgiveness even if they did that to survive.

But I understand that the case of the survivors of the Andes is not cannibalism as such, they call it anthropophagy, that is, they did eat human flesh from their dead relatives, but they did not kill those relatives in order to eat them. In any case, just imagining it turns my stomach and makes me very sad. But I think that human beings commit cannibalism in an indirect way, for example, people who steal in a certain way are cannibals, there are people who have killed other people for stealing from them, then it is as if one's hunger is satisfied with the death of another, this is horrible, for example, when a powerful person steals a large amount of money from his country, that money is needed by hospitals with sick people, that person who steals eats large banquets and is metaphorically feeding himself of the sick who are dying due to the crime they commit. So even though I'd rather starve than cannibalize, too many people are living off cannibalism these days.