Doug wrote:
> On 23 Aug, 12:25, "nightjar" .me.uk>
> wrote:
>>> On 22 Aug, 18:49, "nightjar" .me.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 21 Aug, 17:52, "nightjar" .me.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>>> Do you really have problems grasping the fact that moving graveyards
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> legal and that digging up bodies without permission is illegal? It
>>>>>> really
>>>>>> should not be necessary to say more than that.
>>>>> I am not questioning the legality but the ethics involved.
>>>> The Church has never seen any ethical problem about digging bodies up
>>>> after
>>>> they have been buried for a while. Indeed, doing that and stacking the
>>>> bones
>>>> in ossiaries is a well-established way of freeing up space in
>>>> churchyards.
>>>>> I see no
>>>>> difference in digging up one body or multiple bodies,
>>>> Nor do I, if it is done legally. However, stealing bodies is both illegal
>>>> and ethically wrong.
>>> I regard digging up bodies to make way for airport expansion as
>>> illegal
>> The law about exhumations is quite clear and any made under licence from the
>> Home Secretary are completely legal.
>>
>>> and ethically wrong.
>> That is a matter of personal belief and you are entitled to your view, just
>> as other are equally entitled to theirs.
>>
>>> We are supposed to be signatories to an
>>> international agreement on cutting back pollution.
>> The only pollution that will arise from the exhumations will be the exhausts
>> of the diggers used. Would you prefer them to be dug up by hand?
>>
>> If, on the other han, you are referring to the airport and the Kyoto
>> Protocol, a number of the original advisors on the protocol have said that,
>> if they had known then what they know now, the Kyoto Protocol would never
>> have existed.
>>
> Nevertheless there is now broad international agreement on reducing
> pollution, which Heathrow expansion contravenes.
>>> On the other hand I regard blackmailing animal torturers to stop what
>>> they are doing, where the government has miserably failed to do so, as
>>> both legal and ethical in common law.
>> Digging up bodies without a licence from the Home Secretary is illegal under
>> Statute Law,. Digging them up without permission from the Church is illegal
>> under Canon Law and digging them up without the permission of the relatives
>> is illegal under Common Law. Blackmail is illegal under both Statute and
>> Common Law. As for the ethics, only a few, very disturbed, individuals would
>> agree with your views on that.
>>
> So how come torturing animals is not illegal?
It is. Maybe your ideas of what is and isn't legal are off kilter, or
like George W. Bush you have a different definition of torture than
anyone else.
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
