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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    If they were prostitutes in life???

    I've never understood why that was a crime other than the health impact. A lifeless body is an inanimate object, who cares what you do with it? Sure it's gross to most people, but so is being a homo. I'm sure it upsets people even more when their loved ones do that stuff, but that isn't a crime anymore.

    This thread has officially been hijacked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    I've never understood why that was a crime other than the health impact. A body is an inanimate object, who cares what you do with it.
    It's innate psychology. Respect for the dead is a human universal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    It's innate psychology. Respect for the dead is a human universal.

    I'm not so sure about that. Warriors used to drink out of the stripped skulls of their enemies and rape the dead bodies. People have historically defaced and destroyed the bodies and images of bodies to make a point. We revere our own dead in general.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff View Post
    I'm not so sure about that. Warriors used to drink out of the stripped skulls of their enemies and rape the dead bodies. People have historically defaced and destroyed the bodies and images of bodies to make a point. We revere our own dead in general.
    Yes this is true. But what makes the drinking out of skulls etc meaningful is that bodies aren't just inanimate objects.

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    I'm with Tuff and ATPG on this one. They're rehashing old material, and reusing it; was that Beatles commercial they recently aired for Rock Band in bad taste? Since John Lennon, and George Harrison were both in it.

    How about any spoofs made off of books by Dead Authors? Honestly, I don't think they care, and I hardly find it disrespectful.

    Had they ended the Commercial with "Don't you wish that Chris Farley never died of a drug overdose?" that would have been in bad taste.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wakizashi View Post
    Had they ended the Commercial with "Don't you wish that Chris Farley never died of a drug overdose?" that would have been in bad taste.
    And yet I would have bought the service in principle. Chris Farley would have loved that. Degenerate flippancy is a hallmark of the modern age and sells gold records.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    Yes this is true. But what makes the drinking out of skulls etc meaningful is that bodies aren't just inanimate objects.
    So dead people have feelings, too?
    It's only meaningful because people still value them, this thread is about how other people think that is rather illogical. I'm not saying that necrophilia is not really weird but this isn't necrophilia anyway, they're just using old clips for an ad, they use all sorts of things for ads, especially things that draw attention to that ad, like clips of dead people...


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    Dead guys sell beer, too (from 2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0UyzI-Isig

    My take-away from this conversation is: Madison Ave guys have no soul, and like Husar says, they'll use any gimmick to get and hold our attention.
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