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Originally posted by Gattigap
It's a severed limb, Atticus.
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Oh, sure. When you put it
that way, of course it makes me sound, um, unreasonable.
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Requiring permission to see a cadaver, or limbs thereof, doesn't seem to me like an apocalyptic abandonment of educational standards just yet.
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Fair point. Didn't mean to sound outraged by it or anything; I just surmise that about half of the "Kids today have no conception of real-world violence etc." comes from the antiseptic way in which they're raised, excepting of course cartoon violence like video games and movies.
As a Catholic with many elderly relatives who eventually proved susceptible to the charms of eternal life as a cadaver, I encountered a bunch of well-coiffed deceased people at various open-casket wakes and funeral Masses. Death wasn't exactly a friend, but it also wasn't something that only happened to bad guys in the movies. My parents didn't protect me from it. But when I got to college, I met a bunch of people who'd never been in the room with a body. I don't think that's a good thing.
But to my mind, this isn't about death. It's about science and medicine. I'm probably going overboard on the permission slips, but I have a lot of confidence in what kids can take.
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Despite the factual flaws, I like my argument as it is.
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Post this on Politics so I can nominate it for Board Motto.
