Today our discussion turned to the situation in Georgia where bodies are being discovered that were supposedly cremated. Although he hasn't been charged with this particular crime (yet), one student asked: Why is "abuse of a corpse" illegal, but not abortion? My dead grandma is just a sack of bones, so why can't I hack her up like abortionists do to a fetus? Does a fetus or a corpse deserve more protection from the law?
This automatically triggered a memory of some TIPS messages from this week, so I told her that corpses really don't "deserve" protection. It's just that various powerful religious institutions have convinced us that we should respect the dead, so we've created these laws in response. I don't think they bought it. Any other ideas? Al A. B. Shealy Columbia State U. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
