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<blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6271551" data-attributes="member: 17077">Every culture has practices that other people find to be disgusting or repulsive. That doesn't make them evil. Burial practices in particular vary widely from one culture to another. Some cultures bury their dead, some burn them, some leave them out for scavengers to eat, some even practice cannibalism. There are monasteries whose walls and ceilings are decorated with the bones of dead monks. Those practices aren't evil just because other people find them repulsive. Some other cultures look at western civilizations' practice of conducting autopsies on the dead to be grotesque and disrespectful to the dead. Others would point out the benefit to science and how it helps the living. Those views aren't wrong or evil just because other cultures disagree.I think people naturally are repulsed by the sight of corpses for a few reasons. For one, it is a reminder of our own mortality, something we prefer not to think about. There may even be biological reasons why we find corpses disgusting. Just as we have a natural fear of heights, we've evolved to instinctively recognize things that can be dangerous. Rotting corpses often carry disease, so it would make sense that we have a natural tendency to be afraid of them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Falling Icicle, post: 6271551, member: 17077"] Every culture has practices that other people find to be disgusting or repulsive. That doesn't make them evil. Burial practices in particular vary widely from one culture to another. Some cultures bury their dead, some burn them, some leave them out for scavengers to eat, some even practice cannibalism. There are monasteries whose walls and ceilings are decorated with the bones of dead monks. Those practices aren't evil just because other people find them repulsive. Some other cultures look at western civilizations' practice of conducting autopsies on the dead to be grotesque and disrespectful to the dead. Others would point out the benefit to science and how it helps the living. Those views aren't wrong or evil just because other cultures disagree. I think people naturally are repulsed by the sight of corpses for a few reasons. For one, it is a reminder of our own mortality, something we prefer not to think about. There may even be biological reasons why we find corpses disgusting. Just as we have a natural fear of heights, we've evolved to instinctively recognize things that can be dangerous. Rotting corpses often carry disease, so it would make sense that we have a natural tendency to be afraid of them. [/QUOTE]

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