Requiescat in pace etc.

That cracked me up! :D Funny enough, Fuge; I normally only get to come back here towards the end of my ‘evenings’. So I’ve usually accessed a fair bit of alcohol by now myself! ;-)

Me / ‘Vert: ” “I mean, dead people and shit? Are there any other two things in the universe we instinctively withdraw from like we do from those?” So you think the perversity of an act is proportional to the “innate” repugnance people feel toward shit and death? And yet, isn’t that repugnance socially conditioned as well? Children will play with their own excrement. ”

Would not more children be repelled by the presence of a dead person? Would they play with a corpse, d’ye think?

Maybe my own angle is derived not so much from ’socially conditioned repugnance’ as just plain understanding. Eg. I’ve just this minute come from a forum where it was showing a media report of how a load of hospital patients had died of a specifically shit borne disease, contracted on the wards.

Shit can be dangerous. So can snakes and loaded guns and berries. We have to teach our children these things. If ye want to call that ’social conditioning’? That’s fine. But it still stands, doesn’t it?

Dead people? I have to admit; The above (my) criteria doesn’t fit so well there, does it? A dead paedophile is a lot less danger to a child than a live one. And I say that on the given that no one, in discussing Necrophillia, would be thinking of a well rotted corpse.

Embrace my naked body now? No harm. If I drop dead now and ye embrace my dead, naked body tomorrow night? Again, no harm, I’d have thought. But, by the time I started blowing up and splitting? Ah, jesus ….!

Interestingly; One of my Dogs died the other week. As I laid him into the ground, just hours later, no way could I bring myself to kiss his face goodbye. He was stiff and cold. A corpse. No longer the warm and responsive creature I’d unhesitatingly plant a kiss on the day before.

No one’s ever “conditioned ” me for that. I just *Instinctively* recognised that this was dead and decomposing meat. Other animals too recognise death in their friends. Though, conversely, they’ll happily eat that friend once the body reaches a certain state of decomposition.

I recognise that I’m bouncing around a bit here, ‘Vert. But that’s just due to my own attempting to pin the point down: Kiddies will indeed play with excrement. They don’t yet recognise the inherrant dangers. Yet DO kiddies play with dead things in the same way?

Whilst having no personal reccollection of any fasination with shit, I Do remember picking up some dry Dog shit and chasing my mortified friends with it. But I could see it was dry and hard as stone. Not as if it was wet and sticking to my fingers.

At the same period we found a dead sparrow. I busted it open and we were all fasinated by what was inside it. But mess with what was in there? Hell no! It was dead and we *Instinctively* felt it would be wrong. No way were any us of going to let our own skin touch That lot.

Damn. Now ye’ve got me so wrapped up in all this, I think I’ll go back to my ‘home’ forum and present this question to a bunch of perfectly average, ‘normal’ people! I just need to figure out what ‘The Question’ is! :D