Objectively speaking: it would higher your chances of survival.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Up next: should you cut off and eat your own limbs if you’re really hungry?
No, I mean like, really hungry.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 10 months ago
deur@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I think the blood loss and infection risk may be a problem. I think they may have speculated about it in academia though, not sure what the outcome was.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yeah, and if you’re that hungry that the meat would save your life, you’re in no state to recover from such a devastating wound. Your immune system and ability to generate new blood would be severely compromised.
And then there’s the added mental toll of coping with the lost limb and having to learn to use it, whilst you’re already dizzy from hunger and blood loss, so any chances at other food would be much harder to exploit.
I think objectively it would make your situation much worse.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 10 months ago
Oh that’s right. Didn’t think of that.
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The old saying is: “Cut off your nose to spite your face”