"Survivorman" Les Stroud claims that the decision to eat insects becomes easy when one is desperately hungry, but eating the remains of dead people is difficult no matter how desperate you are.
psychologically, what is going on? is the cannibalism phobia innate or learned? if learned, is it more general than cannibalism? how do you generally indoctrinate people into behaviors that they will not deviate from no matter how desperate they are, even if the indoctrinator has no means of punishing deviant behavior? lots of people want to know the answer to this question, for evil, for power.
is the decision to be a cannibal made easier if the person that you are about to eat had previously declared "please feel free to eat me if I die"? do people never declare such things, even if they are close to death and their friends are in dire straits?
of course, it's ethically impossible to do controlled experiments.
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