A story is told of four lepers who were starving. They said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore, come, let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they keep us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall only die.”
A man would rather be killed than die of starvation.
One of the bizarre scenes in Prison Break is the moment when T-bag, the villain of the series, is on the run with his companion Sancho. They are in the middle of a Mexican desert and are starving. T-bag tries to eat the pages of a book he had to satiate his hunger. And eventually he has to eat Sancho for lunch.
But reality is more bizarre than fiction.
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 with 45 passengers on board, crashed at the Andes Mountains. Some passengers died immediately while the rest got stuck in the freezing and punishing conditions for 72 days. By the time they were rescued only 16 survived. But how did they survive for 72 days?
You guessed it; they ate the remains of their dead counterparts. In fact, they started with the dead pilot! One of the survivors, says” “We had to eat, and the only proteins available were the dead bodies”.
An empty stomach is shameless, it has no morals.
When a man is hungry, he hopes for food.
But when a man is starving, He looks for something to eat.
Only when a man is starving does he take matters into his own hands.
Life is life
Fabio