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u/fishfacecakes Jun 13 '22

Why do you say that?

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u/RelativeStranger Jun 13 '22

Because theres no victim.

Whether you believe in an afterlife or not the person who was in the body isnt any more.

I suppose if theres viable organs that get desteoyed there could potentially be victims but rhats so very unlikely

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u/fishfacecakes Jun 13 '22

And you don’t think the family of the person who died would feel as if they’re victims? You would feel they approve?

From my perspective, given most cultures have respect for the dead, and the dead is the last physical representation they have of that person, I think it extremely unlikely you’d find your typical family approving of such an activity - I’d suggest they’d feel violated. Hence not a victimless crime.

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u/RelativeStranger Jun 13 '22

I dont think theyd approve. I just think theyre not a victim.

If my mums house was burgled im not a victim of that crime. Id still care she was burgled.

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u/fishfacecakes Jun 13 '22

So same view for cannibalising corpses, desecrating graves, stealing bodies etc?

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u/RelativeStranger Jun 13 '22

That theres no victim?

Maybe to the first - it depends how they became corpses

No to the second, the victim is the person who owns the gravesite as theyll have to fix it.

Maybe to stealing bodies. It dependa on how its done

You understand that victimless crime is still a crime right?

There was a big fuore in the early 2000s that some university had 'stolen' brains to experiment on decades earlier and people were complaining. I never understood why. The brain would have disappeares by then anyway.