An... interesting hypothetical

[hittite]

So what are the natives eating?

Ok, i see where you're coming from, like "how are they surviving". Ok.

My thoughts are "what are they eating", as in, if i eat them, what are they going to taste of? You know, like corn fed chicken.

You know, I'm kind of surprised you're the first to ask that.

In answer, I don't have a specific answer. I would say they are palatable, but have a vaguely unpleasant aftertaste.

 

[EllEzDee]

So you'

So what are the natives eating?

Ok, i see where you're coming from, like "how are they surviving". Ok.

My thoughts are "what are they eating", as in, if i eat them, what are they going to taste of? You know, like corn fed chicken.

You know, I'm kind of surprised you're the first to ask that.

In answer, I don't have a specific answer. I would say they are palatable, but have a vaguely unpleasant aftertaste.

So you're saying i'm starving to death on some crazy island, and i'm forced to murder and eat the locals, only to find they taste like dirty gym socks? Thanks, but no thanks. Unless of course there's some kind of space-juice on this island that i can wash the taste away with.

In all seriousness, i couldn't kill to sustain my own life. But then, why am i happy with the mass slaughter of defenseless animals who, as your empathetical statement goes, "[are] intelligent, friendly, and peaceful. They have done you no wrong." That's what i'd love the answer to.

 

[shwnbob]

I'd eat them for awhile. Maybe at night while their asleep so they don't expect it's me. I'll sneak into their houses and eat them, maybe even leave behind the bones to freak out the rest of the natives. Then, after awhile, when they figure out that it is me and come looking for me in the woods I'll set traps all over and kill them off, one by one, and eat those bodies. So yeah... I think I'll be good.

 

[Unesh52]

I'd eat them. I'd eat them all. I mean, if I ever got off the planet and maybe managed to come back, I guess I'd give my life over to them, but I'd eat them to stay alive.

EDIT: By "give my life," I mean I'd beg forgiveness and do what I could to benefit their kind.

 

[PrimoThePro]

Tell them of my plight, and hope they either, say, supply me with condemned criminals to eat, or help me find another way to get food.

Interesting. I like love these hypotheticals. I think I would do what Jedamethis says. If that is impossible, then I think I would choose death.

 

[sagacious]

Neither, eat the ones that die naturally.

Over a whole planet, surely there would be enough ones dying to feed you.

Actually, scratch that. This prompt makes no sense, If the natives are edible, then presumably they are made of the same stuff as the stuff they are eating is made of. So if you eat the stuff they are eating, you will get the same nutrition as they get. Basically you just cut out the middle-man.

That is, of course, unless the intelligent natives pull their nutrients straight from the ground.
which seems unlikely. Why would a stationary being have any need of sentient intelligence?

this is getting too complex.

 

[hittite]

So you'

So what are the natives eating?

Ok, i see where you're coming from, like "how are they surviving". Ok.

My thoughts are "what are they eating", as in, if i eat them, what are they going to taste of? You know, like corn fed chicken.

You know, I'm kind of surprised you're the first to ask that.

In answer, I don't have a specific answer. I would say they are palatable, but have a vaguely unpleasant aftertaste.

So you're saying i'm starving to death on some crazy island, and i'm forced to murder and eat the locals, only to find they taste like dirty gym socks? Thanks, but no thanks. Unless of course there's some kind of space-juice on this island that i can wash the taste away with.

In all seriousness, i couldn't kill to sustain my own life. But then, why am i happy with the mass slaughter of defenseless animals who, as your empathetical statement goes, "[are] intelligent, friendly, and peaceful. They have done you no wrong." That's what i'd love the answer to.

Ah, I guess I was a little ambiguous there. By 'intelligent', I meant that they have human level intelligence.

And I meant for the flavor to be more 'bland but filling' than 'dirty gym sock.'

 

[Gudrests]

So what are the natives eating?

Alien planet. Alien biology is, by definition, alien. They can eat the native plant and animal life just fine, since it's their home planet. It's only incompatible with you because you aint from around there.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is what you would do.

Declare myself god and demand sacrifices....and ya know...experiment with some food...it might work with some sauce...everything tastes good with sauce

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Disscuss the situation with natives.

See what they think, work something out.

 

[Teh_Lemon]

It depends on how much we could learn from each other. If neither of our existences are benificial to either of us in any way, shape, or form, I wouldn't bother. Naturally, however, the fact that we're aliens to each other is enough to satisfy a curiosity of mine- so I'd ask for their dead.

 

[Lord Legion]

I would probably feed off the dead caused in the wake of all the smallpox, bubonic plague, flu, and cold epidemics let loose in the moment of contact...if they are as intelligent as we are and have a global infrastructure, not much will be left of their civilization. I'd probably die myself from some horrific otherworldly disease.

congratulations, you reeeaally pissed off the jedi with this hypothetical quandry.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Offer a trade with the aliens. i provide insight on the culture of our planet, how kowledge of technology and philosphies for the bodies of the recently dead, I live and i also begin my indoctrination

 

[Brandon237]

I don't know, I mean, how would I know that they were edible if the native plant and animal life wasn't. They'd probably be composed of the same basic compounds. I'd probably just eat a little native plant every day until adapted or died.

Clever idea, and many natural poisons your body will become immune to with exposure, see bee sting therapy. So the idea is legit assuming you don't die instantly.

And that is what I would do, I will not murder friendly blue people because I want food...

 

[binvjoh]

I don't know. Depends how intelligent they come off as. Basically if I'd consider them more like animals than individuals.

 

[Sparrow]

So what are the natives eating?

Alien planet. Alien biology is, by definition, alien. They can eat the native plant and animal life just fine, since it's their home planet. It's only incompatible with you because you aint from around there.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is what you would do.

Using this logic, eating anything alien would mean that eating the aliens (still following?) would be just as lethal.

 

[Chrono212]

Beg to eat their dead! D:

Try to explain your plight and find if there are any other solutions :/

 

[ReaperzXIII]

Course I'd eat them! The only thing stopping me from tasting the rest of you guys is the fact you are the same species as me! Anyway survival of the fittest or the thing with the element of surprise and I want my supernatural mystery name to be: The Skull King! After he eats u he uses ur skulls to create his throne!

I will be feared by all the townspeople!

Also anyway I can make them believe I am a messenger from The Prosperity God Uchtros and my mouth is how they will get to paradise? Uchtros has spoken! TO reach paradise you must be bbq'd and covered in bbq sauce before being sent through the portal to Uchtros!

 

[Therumancer]

I thought this up a while ago, and I've been trying to decide how it would turn out ever since. For the life of me, I can't decide.

Imagine, if you will, that you're stranded on an alien planet. By some miracle, the atmosphere is breathable and the wildlife isn't trying too hard to kill you. Unfortunately, you're running low on supplies and there is only one single edible thing on the planet: the natives. They're intelligent, friendly, and peaceful. They have done you no wrong. So the question comes down to this: murder an innocent or slowly starve to death.

I want to think that I'd do the noble thing and die, but I simply can't know for sure.

Interesting, though there are too many details missing to make a fair analysis. If you want to make the situation more messed up, consider that Suicide is considered a sin within Christianity and I believe a number of other religions. Choosing to starve to death or commit murder could be an interesting conflict within such morality.

That said, assuming I'm powerful enough in proportion to the natives to be enough of a predator to ensure my own survival, chances are I could uplift the society as well. While by no means "good" or "right", I might consider doing something like declaring myself their god, and demanding sacrifices, however at the same time I'd be sharing knowlege and/or technology that will probably expand their progress quite rapidly. The scant few lives lost to keep me around for the rest of my lifespan could arguably be mitigated by the number of lives saved in the long run by the things I would teach. Since I'm not going to live forever, there is no reason to be concerned about my followers rising up with that knowlege and destroying me, chances are I'll be dead before they got to that point since I'd be planting the seeds.

Sort of like the relationship some authors have come up with for how aliens dealt with humans in our distant past, or how vampires built human civilization, or whatever else.

All that aside, it's a messed up situation in general.

 

[beniki]

Explain to them that I come from a race that is historically proven to do anything to survive, and has caused the extinction of many, many species, and that unless they find alternatives, they will be my only food source.

And I'm getting hungry.

 

[Czargent Sane]

four words.

"bring me your dead"

EDIT: well, I would love to say I would chose to starve, but frankly i'd never get to make that choice. if I couldnt digest the animals and such I would never think "oh, but the people should do fine"