When looking at the story of a rugby team from Uruguay who crashes in the Andes mountains and turns to cannibalism to survive, many questions about the social construction of reality become apparent. Humans follow certain rules of society that, to us, our normal. Eating each other is off limits, whereas eating the meat of another animal is acceptable. Although we see the consumption of fellow humans as atrocious, when these rugby players are out in the mountains for over two months, many of these social constructions are no longer valid. They view those dead bodies as something different, once the survivors are left with few choices.
We, as human beings, have developed views and perceptions of many things that, to others, might be different. Just because we cannot understand how these sixteen people could turn to eating their own, doesn't mean that our social construction of reality would change once we were put in their shoes. Just because you cannot fathom opening up a person for surgery, that does not mean you couldn't after proper training and experience.
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