Throughout the book The Road, there is a group of "bad people" that eat other humans to survive. While discussing this aspect of the book, we decided to make this topic our next blog question. "Is cannibalism morally right?"I don't think that I would ever turn to caniballism but I don't really know because I am not in a situation where it is either eat another human or die. It is perfectly understandable that in the situation presented in the book, many people that would normally never go near human flesh, would form a group of man eaters. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, in order to reach a level of morality you first need to have your physiological, safety and security, love and belongingness, and self-esteem needs. These are kind of hard to have if you are still struggling to get your next meal. So in order to answer this question, I think that Cannibalism is not morally right but is acceptable in this situation since very few people are thinking about morals when they are starving
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