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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy,net.flame
Subject: Re: life rafts
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 19:33:41 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  1 19:33:41 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1216@amd.UUCP> karen@amd.UUCP (Karen Bain) writes:
>
>I think the best way to handle this raft situation is survival of
>the fittest. Whoever dies of starvation first gets eaten by the 
>other. It only seems fair - this way no one feels guilty about
>killing anyone, and by the time one of the people starves to death,
>the other will have sufficient appitite to eat him.
>
>                               - K.B.

But by then there may not be enough left of him/her to do much good.
If one were to cause the demise of ones raft mate early in the game,
it would also save water which may be more important than food anyway.
Also, if the ordeal did not last as long as one originally thought it
might, any leftovers could be eased over the side.