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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: FHomerK
Morals are an invention meant to allow us to feel superior to others.
More an invention meant to allow us to coexist. Of course it doesn't always work out that way.
originally posted by: FHomerK
a reply to: Xcathdra
You are disturbed by the idea that one human being could do this to another?
Apparently you didn't get the memo. We are animals. It appears to be that you somehow think that a lack of morals are what is missing here. The notion that you have them, so therefore others *must* have them too.
Morals are an invention meant to allow us to feel superior to others.
Desperation and a lack of "proper upbringing" (something highly akin to morals) are the root of this. You corner a hungry rat, it will attack. You put a "deplorable" into a situation where they feel they are owed something by others..... or by society, and something "disturbing" will happen.
Folks, we are not lofty spirits with a metaphorical wingtip in the heavens and another forced to drag limply in the mud.
We are flesh and bone, and some sort of as of yet undefined etherical spirit which is likely to be yet a resource unnamed and unharnessed by those with "disturbing" thoughts and impulses that we bow and scrape to.... Corporate "Leaders" or Government "Leaders"..... just a slight bit more lofty than the "disturbing" one in Detroit cutting out livers and kidneys for a profit.
originally posted by: TinySickTears
seems like they basically have it figured out.
no serial killer here
on a similar note my ex mother in law bought a used truck from a dealer up here and when i was going through it i found a human jaw bone under the drivers seat.
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: TinySickTears
seems like they basically have it figured out.
no serial killer here
To the contrary? If this was illicitly selling cadaver parts to researchers for hefty sums, then why would an organ be discovered in the sewage system?
That would seem more consistent with someone disposing of a body, not selling it for profit.
While it is not illegal to sell body parts or tissue, the FBI investigation centers on three key potential crimes:
Bodies being dismembered without the donors' consent and sold for profit, deceiving donors and their families who were promised they would not be sold — just used for medical research.
Bodies going to science without the clear consent of the donors.
Body donation centers selling body parts riddled with disease to unsuspecting medical researchers.
"While this trade is not, in and of itself, illegal ...," an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit, "crimes have been committed."
On Oct. 7, one of Rathburn's associates, Arizona businessman Stephen Gore, pleaded guilty to running an illegal body donation center in Phoenix at Biological Resource Center, which was shut down in 2014 following an FBI raid. It was a paper trail that started in Detroit that led to the closure. A year later, that same paper trail led the FBI to Illinois — home of Rathburn's main body parts supplier, court records show. Now, authorities in Arizona say they're helping the FBI connect the dots and show how body parts moved between Illinois, Arizona and Michigan, made the dealers money, and without the donors' families ever knowing.