"We are born for Justice, and right is based, not upon men's opinions, but upon Nature." -Cicero

A plant whose seeds can cure AIDS has been discovered in a remote area of the South American rain forest. The plant only grows in a 4-acre area of the jungle controlled by a fierce tribe of cannibals who are hostile to the outside world. This tribe killed three of the four scientists who discovered the plant. The fourth escaped to tell the "civilized" world of the discovery.

You have been chosen to be part of a delegation that will travel to the area to contact the tribe, initiate peaceful relations with it, and secure the rights to grow and harvest the plant.

Your delegation finds the tribe. Your ingenuity and diplomatic skills prevent the delegation's being eaten. In fact, you are such a gifted ambassador that you manage to forge a cordial if not friendly relationship with the tribe. You convince the tribe's council to allow outsiders into the area to grow and harvest the plant. The tribal council invites you to their village that evening for a formal friendship ceremony and a celebration.

At the celebration, you are served a plentiful helping of cooked scientist. The tribe has preserved the bodies of the botanists they killed weeks ago as food. The tribal council, through signs, gestures, the few words of English you have taught them, and the few words of their language you have picked up, makes it clear that they would consider it the greatest honor if you would share their meal with them. In fact, they give you to understand that declining to partake would be considered an insult that will certainly cancel your agreement and perhaps expose you to the same fate as the boiled botanists whose flesh adorns the plate in front of you.

The lives of millions of AIDS patients (and those of the delegation) depend upon this decision.

Do you eat?