Quote:
Originally Posted by casimendocina
Thread drift: For me the amazing/impacting thing about the soccer team who crashed in the Andes was the fact that they walked out of there after 10 weeks of minimal food and that with the little energy they had left, they managed it, even though it took them 10 days. The eating dead bodies is barely a blip on my radar compared with the enormous physical feat that the two of them achieved. Their families and the families of those who died would have much preferred that at least some of them made it back, rather than all of them dying because they were breaking a social taboo. Having said that, I'm not sure if I would be able to in a similar situation.
|
Human beings surprise themselves every day with the wonderful, brutal, and horrific things they can do when there's no other choice.