An... interesting hypothetical

[Adventurer2626]

I'd live off the recently dead if at all possible.

 

[Zacharine]

four words.

"bring me your dead"

Like this?


As I've said before, I would rather commit suicide that starve and I refuse to eat sapient and intelligent beings or their dead due to unrelated reasons.

 

[Emurlahn]

Two options;

1. if alien species are highly evolved, make a deal.
2. if alien species are not highly evolved, pretend I'm a god who needs "human"-sacrifices to eat.

 

[Aurora Firestorm]

If it was set in stone that nothing on this planet was edible but the flesh of the native sentient creatures, I would go to them and do my best to ask them if I could have the flesh of condemned criminals, or other recently dead if it were culturally okay. I'd do whatever rituals/etc. that they demanded be done, if they had some sort of procedure for respecting the dead, if that were their requirement. I would make it clear that I would leave their planet as soon as I could, to go back to where I could survive without this.

If there was no way home and I would have to murder to live, I would ask them to provide me with as painless a death as possible, rather than starving or slow poisoning.

 

[nuba km]

I would explain the situation to them and ask if I could have their recently dead if they say no I act like I accept the response and leave but actually become the boggy man of their society snatching people out of their beds killing and eating them.

 

[hurfdurp]

I'd ..scavenge the dead aliens?

 

[The_ModeRazor]

And... they totally wouldn't kill me for attempting to eat them.
Riiiiight.

Fuck it, I'm dead anyway. Might as well pull the trigger.

 

[bz316]

If the alien flora and fauna were poisonous to me, why would the sapient aliens be any different? Did their brains somehow get their amino acids all mixed up or something? Anyway, to answer your question, how many of them are their? Are there enough to make a decent meal, yet not so many I couldn't take them in a fight?

 

[blankedboy]

Negotiate with them.
That's a REALLY interesting situation.

 

[nick_knack]

How about this is a ridiculous hypothetical.

Real life ethics are not as sharp cut and sterile as most "ethical questions".

 

[Geekosaurus]

Presumably the native need some sort of sustenance, so you'd just eat that. If, however, it was an alien race that existed without the need for eating they'd have no idea what you were trying to do. In which case trying to eat one of them will be so totally unfathomable to them they'd probably take offence to it.

 

[Littlee300]

I'll take my chances and just eat the alien plants.

I'd rather be poisoned or whatever than killing the innocent natives.

Just eat whatever the animals are eating. They are probably carbon based life forms if the air is breathable.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

i'd probably die cause i'm a fussy eater XD


edit: OP, you should probably put the 'hard science' post into the original post, cause of how many people are completely ignoring what you've said in it. (looks up at EVERY post above)

 

[GLo Jones]

I'd charge in, killing the older natives, and capturing their young. I'd then try and farm them in a controlled environment.

 

[newwiseman]

I'd have to say to your hypothetical it's impossible for a single species to survive on a planet, evolution leads new species to form just to take advantage of resources not exploited by others. Second, 99% of the other animals on the planet would have the same bio chemistry as the native sentiments.

 

[hittite]

i'd probably die cause i'm a fussy eater XD


edit: OP, you should probably put the 'hard science' post into the original post, cause of how many people are completely ignoring what you've said in it. (looks up at EVERY post above)

You know what, I think I will.

 

[Alade]

I formulate a plan to systematically kill a lot of them at once and then ration the food from then on.

No need for excessive evil or moral dilemmas. Survival of the fittest.

 

[WrathOfBanja]

Most of the indigenous life is arsenic in origin, the natives, who are the only "normal" carbon based life, have developed an organ that streams the arsenic from their system. Everyone should know arsenic is highly toxic to us.

So once the food passes through them, its good, right?
Obviously the answer here is to just eat their excrement!

 

[JoshGod]

surely there are enough that i can eat that die on thier own?

 

[Section Crow]

instincts would overlap my conscious and i'd eat em' like they were Kentucky fried chicken