Henslin, Eating Your Friends is the Hardest

I had previously heard about this story, but the twenty one statements about it from a sociologist’s stand point really changed how I thought of it. First hearing this story from my dad years ago; I thought could I have done that? I think starvation would drive me and my will to live- I would think that I just had too. As we’ve been talking about deviants and as this chapter mentions, I didn’t realize how much of a play it had on the whole situation, having a close friend you could trust who also is majoring in the medical field, I think would have made me immediately be on his side. Also, as we state almost everyday in class, everything is socially constructed and varies from time to time, place to place, and culture to culture. Knowing in the past as the intro of the chapter mentions, warriors used to eat the hearts of the people they defeat to gain strength, also in many of cultures in the past similar cannibalism was very common. So only to us now would this act be considered deviant.