Principally to rationalists. If there is no spiritual component to the world, and there is no such thing as divinely revealed morality, what possible logical, rationally based arguement could be made against having sex with a dead body?
Lack of consent is not an argument. Inanimate object have no consent to give or deny. And you finding it disgusting is not an argument because your asthetic tastes should not be imposed on others.
2007-03-25 21:52:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let me add a component to the question:
If I started a company where l paid living people for them to put in their will that upon their death they would give me the right to turn their corpse into a sex toy through taxadermy, what could be wrong with that? Rationally.
2007-03-25 22:38:46 · update #1
Thinking of this
I hope that when I die, I'm so disgusting to look upon that no one wants me then
2007-03-25 22:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You have a point, the only objection I could think of would be that it would hurt the mourning relatives. And of course it could be against the last will of the deceased himself. Anyone should have the right to decide what happens with his own body after his death.
Apart from this, there is no real objection from rational moral's point of view. And there ARE happening many very tasteless things in the world every day. So what?
2007-03-25 22:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wills exist, it's seen as ordinary that people have a desire to direct the use of their posessions after they die. One could argue from that that people have a right to have their remains disposed of in a manner they find appropriate. People request to be buried, cremated, left in a Tower of Silence, whatever. So I'd say that it's hard to find something wrong with a person dictating that their corpse be not violated. One could even assume it, based on the frequency of disgust at the concept of necrophilia.
I'd say lack of consent is an argument.
2007-03-25 22:05:39 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's assume that your body belongs to you. I think we can safely assume that, yes?
When you die, your property goes to your next of kin. If your body is your property, when you die, it becomes the property of your family. So if someone rapes your corpse, they are commiting vandalism againt your family's property.
But the main point isn't a moral one. Its a psychological one. Necrophilia is a fairly serious mental disorder.
While rationally you can only go so far as to say its morally "questionable", you can very safely say that having sex with dead people is the sign of a diseased mind.
In the situation involving the living will, I'd say your acts could not be called immoral, though perhaps a bit crazy.
2007-03-25 21:58:52 · answer #4 · answered by Skippy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The body is property of the survivors of the deceased. As such, they have rights to decide how it is or is not used.
On the flipside, find an unclaimed or abandoned body, one where the family or survivors don't want it... well... my asthetic tastes should not be imposed on others...
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Heron By The Sea:
"No one wants their body to be used this way after they die. "
When I'm dead, if a necrophiliac wants to have a go or two at me before I'm creamated, I don't care one way or another. Let him have at it, then I can be creamed and creamated.
2007-03-25 22:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you take out the spiritual aspect then no problem. the dead body is just a carcass and what one does with that is up to them. Reality is that you can't take out the spiritual aspect so the act is desecrating to the individual that once was. Not to mention that it is an unnatural act, like doing it with animals.
2007-03-25 22:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by onlinedreamer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically speaking, if they can't give consent (or deny), then legally you can't have sex with them (that's called rape regardless of the state of mortality). If people agreed before they died, I can't see a problem with that. Not something I would be signing up for, but they are consenting before the fact. Their relatives might not agree, and sue you.
2007-03-25 23:29:45 · answer #7 · answered by Sarcasma 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, it is demoralizing the deceased person's memory. If you argue that they will not ever know about it, I would say maybe not, but other people might. And they will be horrified at the thought that someone did this to their loved one, or to a human at all. No one wants their body to be used this way after they die. So to find out that someone is using a human body after death in this way, is to cause a threat to human society in general. It is degrading of the human in general, if not specifically.
2007-03-25 21:58:09 · answer #8 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely disgusting, but a good argument. Really makes you think, eh?
2007-03-25 22:02:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Necrophilia is a very serious mental disorder,and anyone who engages in it should be locked up for their own good.
AD
2007-03-25 22:49:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋