A (brilliant) friend proposed that tolerance for the dissection of human cadavers should be considered a critical index of modernity. ...
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... Both empirically and conceptually it seems to work impressively well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissection
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@Outsideness Used to tolerate butchering live bodies in torture and punishment, but not dead ones for curiosity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Outsideness Curiosity itself may be a critical index of modernity.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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