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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 82 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)
  1. It is plainly a biological hazzard.

  2. Most people generally feel no attraction to a dead animal so maybe talk to a therapist about that.

But technically not moral issues, sure. You got us there, corpsefucker. Though, if it were capable of expressing its desire to not be fucked as a corpse before it died, we would want to respect that as part of the same social contract wherein we don't want our corpse fucked.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sexually attracted to living deer either. Being religious sounds confusing as hell.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's easy to avoid the confusion caused by the absurdities involved by being fucking stupid

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[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 69 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Show me in the Bible or Quran where it says I can't fuck roadkill and I'll stop fucking roadkill. And don't cheat with some "defile corpses" type of language. It's just a cream filling.

As truckers say, it's nature's pocket pussy

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm no parasitic brain worm expert but this does seem like something that a brain worm riddled person would say.

Can anyone who's fucked roadkill but is definitely not infested with parasitic brain worms care to give us their opinion?

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I've met Christians that think like this. I think the "logic" goes something like this:

  • God says not to do a lot of things because they're wrong
  • I try not to do those things, and some of them are totally gross
  • Atheists don't believe in God, so there's nothing stopping them from doing those things, including the gross ones

The just totally miss that atheists generally don't want to do those things any more than they do. It reminds me of what Penn Jillette said in an interview:

The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine. I don't want to do that. Right now, without any god, I don't want to jump across this table and strangle you. I have no desire to strangle you. I have no desire to flip you over and rape you.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The sad part is the hypocrisy. They throw the book at you to explain why they are "non violent" and "love" their neighbors. Then when you point out the millennia of rape and killings the Church committed against their neighbors, they say it was in service of God. Which fucking thing is it: god makes you a good person, or god ordains killing and raping (reserved for Christians only)?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not talking morals with someone who has a moral codex from 2000 years ago.

[–] Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'll never get over the slavery angle. Like, right after delivering your people from generations of slavery would have been the perfect opportunity to go "We're not doing that shit again."

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

No no you don't get it, God had to allow slavery because there was no way the humans in that time would put up with not having slaves. He had to make some concessions. Telling everyone to cut off their baby's foreskin though, that's fair game

[–] manuremy@sopuli.xyz 12 points 4 days ago

I grew up in a very cultist region, and I remember having similar arguments at 8-13 years old already. Well, not about corpse fucking but murder and such. When I made the same argument, "I'm currently murdering as many people as I want which is 0", the holier than thou counter-argument always was "well that's only because you grew up in a Christian culture even if you're now deciding to not believe!" Which often wasn't just that, it often went further into pretty racist assumptions that if I was like a "wild human living somewhere in Africa", I'd be murdering and eating human meat.. That tells quite a lot about the whole love-thy-neighbor act I think.

And this wasn't somewhere in the 70's, it was in the 2000-2010.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Without god, what's to stop you from committing all the rape and murder you want?"

I already commit all the rape and murder I want, which is none.

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[–] Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If the only reason you aren't a necrophiliac rapist is because your god says not to, you are not a good person, you are a necrophiliac rapist on a leash.

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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That's the thing that bothers me about religious people, the only thing stopping the lot of them from committing heinous crimes is the fear of eternal damnation. It's like they have no morals at all.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Recently, I was introduced to Wikipedia's List of individual cats.

Among them is Jack, who was lost in luggage by American Airlines. He was found 61 days later, still alive, dehydrated and malnourished and beyond recovery, Jack was put down.

That's one incident. In nature, shit like that happens every single day.

I don't think there's a god, especially the Greek notion of an omnipotent, omniscient creator.

But if one did exist, to us, it is a monster...

...and to It, we are irrelevant.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Are you familiar with the heresy of the Cathars? The God of the Old Testament is actually evil, and the God of the New is the 'good' guy.

There are various heresies like this, including at least one where God and Satan are literally the same dude, just wearing a different name tag. Shit gets fascinating. Obviously, still nuts, but fascinating.

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[–] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I just don't want maggots on my dick. Simple.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A pragmaticist!

Personally I just don't find this particular deer that hot. I blame the deer for that.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (20 children)

The actual answer is that it violates the dignity of animals and humans. It's so disgusting and grotesque that nobody even wants to read about this stupid hypothetical. Not even as a shitpost, nor as a snarky rejoinder to a shitpost. It's literal gore. What the fuck is wrong with you OP.

That and health issues.

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[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Getting any part of one’s body inside a dead carcass has nothing to do with morals…. It’s fucking DISGUSTING! Remember that piece of meat is currently being eaten and digested by billions of bacterias. All eating and defecating everywhere inside and out.. flies have burrowed eggs in it, worms are crawling everywhere, and all this is releasing toxic gases from all the rotting and digesting…. Also all the sphincters have released so the bowels are leaking out ..! Nope…nope….nope….!!!

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Remember that piece of meat is currently being eaten and digested by billions of bacterias. All eating and defecating everywhere inside and out… flies have burrowed eggs in it, worms are crawling everywhere, and all this is releasing toxic gases from all the rotting and digesting

A proper Appalachia Orgy

[–] Ozymati@lemmy.nz 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's not morally wrong, it's just disgusting. And it is morally wrong to fuck a human corpse because the corpse belongs to the family of the deceased, or the state if no family. It's not morally OK to fuck other people's property, or to distress them (in the case of the family) by doing so. Just like how it's OK to fuck your own couch, but not your parent's one.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Morality doesn't exist.

Morality is just Empathy re-branded by religion in order to be codified and used to cudgel uneducated medieval serfs.

What they preach about in not killing, not raping, not fucking deer, etc.. etc... literally comes from simply giving the barest minimum of shits about the people around you.

Their problem however, is that Empathy not only predates their religion by hundreds of thousands of years (if not millions), but that Empathy is not limited to humans, which would mean that they're no longer the creator's "special little boy".

So they rename it, put it into neat and easy little Mnemonic devices (lets call them sins) and then run around telling the uneducated peasants "don't do this, don't do that" even though most people weren't doing those things anyway because most people have empathy and simply aren't assholes.

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[–] WappleFF27@feddit.online 15 points 5 days ago

Could be projection, but it's more likely that christians think atheists are nothing but nihilistic hedonists that fuck and kill everything and anything. looks at bible oh yeah, that's also projection.

[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Its not, you do you, friend. I don't think your god cares either. Follow your bliss.

Just, um, let me get far enough I don't need to see/hear it, and I will never eat venison from you again.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 18 points 5 days ago

What the fuck did I just read?

Look at my user name and post history. I repeat my comment. What the fuck.

I thought my brain rot had shriveled my brain to the size of a raisin, and yet Christians beat me handily.

Wow.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't really think of this scenario as a morality issue. It's just gross.

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[–] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Excuse me what

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good point, it might not be immoral

It is, however, fucking disgusting and that's one good reason not to do it.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I can't remember the Bible verse about not sticking your dick in roadkill.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

It's right before the part in Matthew chapter 5, where Jesus says "unless you're a star, for in that case you can do anything. Grab them by the pussy, you can do anything."

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[–] teuniac_@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think the hypothetical doesn't have much to do with morality. There is no moral reason not to. But there are other reasons.

Actions don't have to be immoral for them to be judged or questioned. People who'd have sex with a dead deer aren't hurting anyone, but they are making choices that would ordinarily lead one to be sceptical of them as a person and be weary of other choices they might have made you are not aware of and if the choices they will make in the future.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 16 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I am not an expert on every verse of the Bible, but I don't recall there being a passage that forbids a believer from fucking roadkill. And even if there is, I'm confident that he doesn't know about it, either. So, I suspect that the actual reason that guy doesn't fuck roadkill is nearly the same reason that I don't fuck roadkill.

I don't fuck roadkill because I don't want to. He, on the other hand, also doesn't want to, but he goes the extra step to say that because he doesn't want to, and it's sexual, then actually it's God that doesn't want him to do it.

In my experience, Christians do this frequently. They have some feeling, and then assume that God must want them to feel that way. I can only say that the thought itself must be blasphemous. And when you look at it in that light, it's actually pretty blasphemous if that Christian doesn't stop to fuck all of the roadkill he comes across. Who is he to guess the mind of God? Even if he doesn't want to, he's got to go pump his meat into that dead deer.

[–] Klear@piefed.world 13 points 5 days ago

So, I suspect that the actual reason that guy doesn’t fuck roadkill is nearly the same reason that I don’t fuck roadkill.

Bold of you to assume that guy doesn't fuck roadkill.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Putting aside the "why the hell would you want to do that?" aspect, let's assume that you're the guy in the picture and you do. It would be morally wrong even if the deer were alive because a non-human animal cannot give consent. It's wrong after it's dead because it's disrespectful to the deer, which was once a living being. Don't need religion to understand that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

It’s wrong after it’s dead because it’s disrespectful to the deer, which was once a living being.

But people eat the deer with zero moral qualms. Are you really going to tell me that yanking something's skin off, cracking its bones, gouging out its internal organs, and processing its meat into sausages for roasting is a sign of respect?

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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It isn't morally wrong but it is disgusting. For most of us, that's enough to never do it, or even think about doing it. But I admit for some, they do need religion to keep them from fucking roadkill, apparently.

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Tell you what: You fuck the rotting deer corpse, I'll stream the video on all your social media.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

RFK is in the chat

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