UK finds new fuel source to undercut Russian stranglehold on Europe

[Serb]

Why not? What is the difference how to use dead babbies: as fuel to get warm/electricity or as fodder for domestic animals?

[Serb]

Europe has gone mad.

[MrFun]

Why not? What is the difference how to use dead babbies: as fuel to get warm/electricity or as fodder for domestic animals?

I want to see you come up with an even more ridiculous, fantastical hypothetical. Go on.

[DinoDoc]

I want to see you come up with an even more ridiculous, fantastical hypothetical. Go on.

Ilse Koch appreciates your support.

[Serb]

Can I call him a nazi, DD?
Please

[Serb]

Ahhh, since when I need a DD's permision to call someone a nazi?

You are a nazi, MF!

[AAAAAAAAH!]

The fact that people do care is really all that matters. It helps that caring about it transcends all cultures.

You could take the same view about cannibalism really (and some people do).

If every human society that has ever existed jumped off a cliff would you?

[Aeson]

I'm talking about as it applies to the United States [where y'all live] (as part of the 'West', which also would include the UK).

There is a reason that 'respecting the remains of the dead' in every culture was linked with religion of that culture. Without some sort of religious faith, what possible meaning is there in human remains? If you believe humans have value in their consciousness, how does that apply when that consciousness leaves them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial

You would find a very strong emotional tie in most people to the body of their loved one who had passed, with or without religion. I certainly wouldn't want to see the bodies of my departed loved ones desecrated, even though I don't have a religion of my own.

I would say that the correlation you are talking about probably worked in the opposite direction. People with emotional ties to the departed being one of the factors leading to religious ceremonies coming about, rather than meaning of human remains being brought about by religion.

[Aeson]

I personally would hope that my body be useful after my death. I think burning organic matter to generate heat/electricity is short-sighted though. Much better to dump it in an anaerobic digestion chamber, harvest the methane, use the methane for fuel, and use the "waste" for organic fertilizers. Bonus for making people rethink the morality of organic vs GMO

Of course the ultimate after-death purpose would be to be a reanimated corpse or cyborg. I'd really hope they weld a chainsaw on there somewhere...

I would draw the line at necrophilia though ... unless she was really hot.

[Serb]

You people are sick and don't even realize how immoral it is to use dead human bodies for profit. That's just immoral for any human being, regardless of his religion.
Capitalism and post-modern has screwed you all entierly. A century ago such thing would have caused wide outrage on the West, 'cause you were Christians back then. Now you are obviously not. You are just human robots without any moral and understanding of what is good and what is wrong.

[Aeson]

If we're just human robots without any moral, then why not use us for fuel? Or better yet ... human/robot cyborgs!

[Serb]

If we're just human robots without any moral, then why not use us for fuel?

Unfortunately, this is exactly where it's going.

[onodera]

Serb, you're going crazy. You shouldn't take that much steroids. A human body is just a human body.

[Serb]

Ilse Koch agrees with Onodera.

[Lorizael]

You people are sick and don't even realize how immoral it is to use dead human bodies for profit ... A century ago such thing would have caused wide outrage on the West ...

Are you sure about that?