Doesn't make much sense
What is the point of sticking together though? Killing him immediately would secure you in the long run...
Should I really point out the
South Park episode including "Eric Roberts"? I mean, that's kind of how it sounds,
ndrs.
The dead do not bleed. If he died before you, you probably wouldn't be able to vampirize him.
True, but you can always eat him. There is water to be had in the flesh; just don't wait too long.
The thing that gets me is that this is another one of those illustrations devised to accommodate the shortsighted and narrow-minded who seek any excuse to license their fetish behavior. Vampirism, for instance, suggests that the other person would allow you to do this. Most likely, those fluids are as important to that other person--if not moreso--as they are to you. So the result is that instead of a cooperative effort to survive, you have an elective battleground where two people choose to make each other the primary threat. It's diversionary. Crowley allegedly kicked a sherpa off a mountain; when, as such, would he ever again have the chance to kill someone without the threat of the law?
Think of it this way: The alien anthropologist finds your remains, and based on the condition of the bodies and other factors at the site, it is reported that humans, when faced with challenging circumstances, choose not cooperative circumstances to prevail, but rather distract themselves with infighting while the Universe falls down around them. Of course, this theory would get shot down by the other school of thought, when a rival anthropologist asks how the humans got to the island. Smirking, the first anthropologist would reply that they swam; as soon as the boat took on water, the best thing to do was not to save the boat but either leap overboard in an effort at self-preservation, or hang around and destroy a few of your species-mates as the waves claimed the lot of you. Of course, that question could be answered when they find the ship and haul up the wreckage and find people trampled, or trapped by the foolish actions of their panicking shipmates.
You're a testament to the species,
Xev.
ndrs: Secure you in the long run against what? In the hypothetical, it is easy to say that you have only so much water left, but how many times in history have humans endured--sometimes at savage cost, admittedly--when they should not have? Cooperative ingenuity increases the species chances for survival. People can "convince themselves" to death; a young man was found dead, suffocated, in an abandoned boxcar in my county when I was a kid. The strangest thing about it was that he scrawled messages on the walls before he died, and insofar as anyone can tell, he wasn't actually running out of air. The boxcar was old, and not sealed. But this guy believed himself suffocating and his heart simply stopped beating. There was no evidence of suffocation.
What I'm after is that there is a difference between what happened to a football team in the Andes and the "Eric Roberts" episode of South Park. In other words, there is a difference between being forced by circumstance to eat the dead guy next to you and panicking and killing someone just so you could eat, feel secure in your isolation, or otherwise convince yourself wrongly of better footing in a bad situation.
Corpses Discovered on Island: Morbid final hours
(AP)--Rescue workers today discovered the bodies of two missing sailors on a remote island in the South Pacific. In a morbid twist of circumstance, the evidence suggests that the sailors, lost from the shipwrecked Zenith, out of Honolulu, set upon themselves shortly after arriving at the island. The first body discovered suffered bruises, lacerations, and a broken neck before a thirty-pound rock was used to crush the skull. The second body, discovered some two hundred feet away, lay in the rocks descending to the surf, apparently having fallen and suffered mortal injury. The Zenith called an SOS on Monday, and only twenty-seven hours had passed before a flotsam trail led rescue searchers to this pimple of an island where a grisly scene awaited them .....
It would make a hell of a story, wouldn't it?
thanx,
Tiassa
