[SoConPubbie]

If denied the opportunity to eat long enough, one will feel compelled to do so by any means necessary.

Only if you view yourself as a lower-order animal and not as a free moral agent.

BTW, we all have a choice to do either the right thing or the wrong thing, that is what distinguishes us from non-sentient beings like the animals.

[rlmorel]

Actually, if one segregates the sexual functions from the eating functions (I know...I know...)

Let’s just call them higher and lower instincts for the purposes of discussion (and this is not denigrating the power of the procreative impulses...)

One of the saddest, most pathetic and heartwrenching things about reading a book like “I Cannot Forgive”, “Night” or other books about the Holocaust is that it is true that the majority of people WILL do nearly anything to eat if they are starving. They will disown their own parents, children, spouse or siblings if that decreases their chances of survival or gaining food.

That is the heartbreak, when people came face to face with the choice, and because they wanted to live so badly, chose food. And the survivors carried that with them to the end of their days.

Now, granted, that isn’t everyone. Some people chose to die rather than succumb to that dehumanizing will to survive.

But, as horny as I have been at points in my life, I don’t see the sex instinct making me cross that threshold.

I did think the other poster was being somewhat...rhetorical when making that point...:)

Okay. Back to the silliness of the thread. TTIWWP!