Would you eat him if you were stranded in the desert with Hannibal Lecter who had just killed the third person in your party and then offered you the victm's leg?
Did you see the movie, "Unbroken"? The downed airmen were in the sea for 47 days, one died on Day 33 but his surviving buddies didn't eat him.
Yes those men had been brought up to attend church and their common decency prevented them from cannabilizing.....Im sure they looked upon it as a sin and wouldnt consider it.
One of them had a soul cleansing encounter with the Creator after the War ended......he was born again!
I loved the book.....
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