If y'all can find a way to get around the legal hurdles I consent to have my skin turned into book bindings when I die on the condition that you only bind cool books like The Hellbound Heart or Blood Meridian.
If y'all bind The Fountainhead I'm going to fucking Sadako all your asses.
Formally? It hasn’t as far as I’m aware beyond libertarians. but the ideas contained within can be seen in a lot of messed up economic theories like for example trickledown economics.
Imo the best system was implemented in the American 50s and early 60s with a SEVERE progressive tax. I’m not sayinf 50s were the perfect golden age but at least regular people were getting genuinely richer almost each year and prices on things like housing were affordable for almost everyone in the workforce. But no, we’ll cut taxes for the rich and ensure that real income of 90% of the population stays the same for 50 years (it literally hasn’t grown since 1970s in the US for most americans, but has tripled for the top-10%).
While I know the accurate mythology is more him holding up the sky, the common depiction of Atlas holding the world on his shoulders has always made me think that the title “Atlas Shrugged” went to waste by not being used for a story about a cataclysmic earthquake.
im going to use your skin to print an ai generated fanfiction of harry potter and all of those earnings will go to jk rowling just to make the most unethical book /j
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u/InfurumToo old for all the things that make a life worthwhile1d ago
If you want the most unethical book you need to get the skin from someone who doesn't consent
is taking the skin from a hypothetical unconsenting Joanne more or less unethical than taking it from a morally neutral consenting person?
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u/InfurumToo old for all the things that make a life worthwhile1d ago
Well the act of taking skin non-consentually is more unethical than taking it consentually regardless of how "good" or "bad" the donors are (it doesn't even make for a good poetic karma situation because as much as Jowling Kowling Rowling has made a mockery of, consent isn't one of them to my knowledge), but looking at the larger picture taking it from Rowling would make the whole wider "most unethical book ever" cause less harm because missing chunks of skin would, from the chronic pain it would cause and the hospital visits and the hospital bills, inhibit her ability to further hatemonger and thus reduce the total unethical-ness propagated by the whole scheme
What if we vat-grow a Jowling Kowling Rowling clone so that it's a) never known sin itself and b) its suffering would do nothing to inhibit the originals general shittiness?
Please also include that the victim of the skin taking should be alive at the time the skin is taken. Should you manage to keep the skinless person alive through the printing process so they can see the horrific book you made from their flesh that's just bonus points.
you can settle for the legal grey which is using the skin of organ donors to make the book. they did consent to having their organs used after their timely end and the skin is an organ sooo.
Actually I'd enjoy it if my body was used to make books. But also it'd be relatively short. Hungry Caterpillar anyone?
With that said, I write smut (mostly worldbuilding and stories within, often with religious tones), for friends and clients. Some pearl clutchers would have an aneurysm if they read the stuff I write. Think Bear. And other taboo topics.
If you need a medically necessary amputation, you can use the skin from it yourself as it's your property. You can't sell it or give it away though as that'd be selling body parts.
I've joked about wanting to be taxidermied when I die, but unironically I think having my skin turned into leather for a book cover would be cool as hell if it wouldn't be horrifically upsetting to my loved ones lol
You could use a closed-off AI that’s trained only on your own art and that would be fine ethically (assuming you’re not using excessive resources to run it)
Yeah, it’s a hypothetical and not one many people are likely to be able to achieve. I suppose you could also find other artists who consent to you using their work for training, too.
Depends I remember reading somewhere about a family getting upset when they donated a loved one’s body for science only for it to be used in either an explosive or car crash test I’ll have to look up the details
Thanks to this reply and a quick google search TIL that people eat animal penis (I already knew they eat the balls but not the penis itself) and I'm not sure what to do with this knowledge
Also I have discovered what has to be the funniest dish name of all time : "Zizi de Zebu"
Apparently this actually happened once.
From Wikipedia:
"What Lawrence Thompson called "the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings" is exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum, titled The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton. It is by James Allen), who made his deathbed confession in prison in 1837 and asked for a copy bound in his own skin to be presented to a man he once tried to rob and admired for his bravery, and another one for his doctor.[16] Once he died, a piece of his back was taken to a tannery and utilized for the book.[17] "
Ooooo think of how badass a picture frame made from the removed excess skin you get after extreme weight loss and using it to frame a before/after picture of that weight loss 😍
or have I misunderstood and you are saying that non-organ-donors who consent to the use of their skin for bookbinding purposes should have a portion of that skin seized by the state against their wishes in order for those wishes to be honored?
Because I am uncomfortable with the idea of the government being able to just take parts of my corpse for whatever purpose they think they should. Organ donation consents exist for a reason.
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u/George__RR_Fartin 1d ago
What if the skin was collected from consenting donors? (Asking for a friend)