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Note to self: next time you buy a book, go with one that doesn’t have a protagonist who makes jerky out of rapists
To be fair though is there any better use for them?
Almost literally anything else, human meat is unsafe for consumption.
Typically in 2016, sure, but survival cannibalism in 2233 is quite the opposite. In the context of the Valhalla Trilogy, I defy anyone to point to any reason that consuming the meat of the sexual predators you kill is unsafe or improper.
Communicable diseases from a rapist who is probably not too concerned with blood-to-blood contact (which could happen during, say, a violent rape scenario) or other health issues due to being mentally ill…just ya know, for starters. Also it’s improper to murder people for any reason.
Have to disagree with that last bit
If someone raped my daughter, or my son, or my wife/husband or whatever, I’d make them beg for death
Killing them won’t unrape your family, it will just make you a murderer.
Context is critical here. Should you as a fine upstanding citizen eat a random person you meet on the street in 2016 America, you would likely be in the wrong. But- If you’re wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland, freezing and starving to death quickly and you encounter a deranged rapist who intends to assault you, then you’re well within reason to kill and eat that person. Disease and morality are distant considerations when you’re about to die, when the world as we know it has ceased to be, and when you are yourself already a mass murderer responsible for the deaths of hundreds personally and billions by extension. The incident in which a rapist is turned into jerky in the Valhalla Trilogy is far closer to the latter than the former, and I feel the protagonist is quite justified in her actions.
Hell, I think she’s still sympathetic when she shreds an entire gang and sells their meat to a local restaurant. That’s just how things are in 2233 Scotland.
Whether or not the matter of disease or morality are distant considerations they are still of some consideration, enough so to explain, at the very least, why eating people is “unsafe”. You defied anyone to point out how it would be unsafe and I did so - communicable disease.
Even if the act is justified it is still unsafe for your health, especially if you’re eating people for which heath is a “distant consideration” and your own access to health care is limited (as I would expect from any wasteland.)
You did point out the drawbacks as I challenged, I give you full props for that :)
I still think if you’re in the situation Vibeke encounters in the book though, cannibalism is probably the best available option.
