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Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I cannot fucking believe I'm going to participate here...

... but when you're talking to someone about organ donation, you'd typically say something like "You can't take them with you. That isn't you anymore. You're dead. It's just meat now."

... and that's as much as I'm going to say because gross

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    But this is actually why we decide whether or not we participate in postmortem organ donation while we're alive - we make the conscious decision ahead of time. Which is still then consistent with the consent argument

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    So then if I consent to someone fucking my corpse after I'm gone, it becomes morally OK for them to do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    With regard to the corpse, maybe.

    There's possibly a virtue ethics argument against the person doing it? Like, it's a little weird that they want to, right?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Weird from a cultural perspective where any sort of non-medical interference with a corpse is frowned upon, so we're trained from a very young age to find any of that stuff icky/morbid. Other cultures may not have that same aversion.

    Kinda in the same vein as we in North America have a very conservative opinion on being naked in public where other cultures couldn't care less.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm already a moral relativist.

    What I'm asking is if a person who wants to and does have sex with corpses, knowing that this is socially profane and must be kept secret, is this a trustable person?

    Also, respect for the dead often involves rituals that are non-medical. I think disease obviously played a part in how these rituals were formed, but I don't think that disease is the primary reason people care.

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